Quotes About Dignity

failure to respect the dignity and worth of all human personality.

The dignity of a society is defined by the way it looks after its weakest members.

was unworthy, almost dishonest, to put a number on somebody's capacities.

The heart, with the other parts removed, were placed in a tin box, which had formerly contained flour, and decently and reverently buried in a hole dug some four feet deep on the spot where they stood. Jacob was then asked to read the Burial Service, which he did in the presence of all. The body was left to be fully exposed to the sun. No other means were taken to preserve it, beyond

The pugnacious spirit is one of the necessities of life. When people have little or none of it, they are subjected to indignity and loss. My own men walk into houses where we pass the nights without asking any leave, and steal cassava without shame. I have to threaten and thrash to keep them honest, while if we are at a village where the natives are a little pugnacious they are as meek as sucking doves. The

Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect. Human rights aren't lying around waiting to be discovered. They're made, not found.

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.

Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God's eyes they do

Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

The Bible does not say you are God's appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.

Were all important in god's eyes.

All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.

Homeless people bear God's image too.