Quotes About Dignity

She offends the fundamental human dignity of her son,–she treats him as if he were a doll, when he is, instead, a man confided by nature to her care.

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Money buys everything, if there is no dignity.

San Josemaría fomentaba un clima vital abierto, en el que cada uno pudiera manifestarse sencillamente como era, y en el que se respetaran las opiniones de unos y otros. Detestaba la tiranía, «porque es contraria a la dignidad de la persona humana»

no fame is actually worth much now-a-days,—because it is not classic fame, strong in reposeful old-world dignity,—it is blatant noisy notoriety merely.

Everyone who writes with care, who treats words with respect and allows even the humblest its historical and grammatical dignity, participates in the exhilarating work of reclamation. Each essay or poem is its own "raid on the inarticulate," and every written work that forestalls the slow death of speech is a response to Wendell Berry's challenge to "practice resurrection.

I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes?

The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

The right to be respected is won by respecting others.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.