Quotes About Dignity

This line of reasoning leads Kant to the second formulation of the categorical imperative: "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."23 This is the formula of humanity as an end.

The debate over the priority of the right over the good is ultimately a debate about the meaning of human freedom.

Few politicians speak that way today. In the decades after RFK, progressives largely abandoned the politics of community, patriotism, and the dignity of work, and offered instead the rhetoric of rising.

shifting our focus from maximizing GDP to creating a labor market conducive to the dignity of work and social cohesion.

It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

Construing populist protest as either malevolent or misdirected absolves governing elites of responsibility for creating the conditions that have eroded the dignity of work and left many feeling disrespected and disempowered. The diminished economic and cultural status of working people in recent decades is not the result of inexorable forces; it is the result of the way mainstream political parties and elites have governed.

Tôi không có quy?n tÆ°á»›c Ä'o?t Ä'i m?ng s?ng c?a chính b?n thân tôi hay ng??i khác.

de que esos agravios no son solo económicos, sino también morales y culturales; de que no tienen que ver únicamente con los salarios y los puestos de trabajo, sino que atañen asimismo a la estima social.

An honorable quality.

The issue is not simply one of needing to save the world, but also of needing to solve the problem of the loss of soul throughout the modern world. Part of what has been lost in the reckless rushing of modernity is the sense that each life has an authentic interior that shelters important emotions as well as inherent purpose, and that the dignity of existence includes a necessary instinct to unfold the unique story woven inside each living soul.

You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.

THE MORE SHE FOUND HERSELF, THE LESS SHE FELT THE NEED TO FIND A MAN THAT MADE HER FEEL LIKE SHE WAS WORTHY. A MAN'S JOB IS NOT TO GIVE A WOMAN HER CROWN. IT IS ONLY THEIR JOB TO RESPECT IT.

I know it sounds foolishly old fashioned, but I'm stuck with this idea that there's something dignified and noble about facing your enemy and looking him in the eye before you thrust a saber in his heart.

If you're decent to others, then you're decent to yourself.

There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.

Switzerland has changed the status of animals to "beings" instead of "things," and Germany was the first nation to grant animals a constitutional right when they added the words "and animal" to a provision obliging the state to respect and protect human dignity.

Work is a sacrament. Don't despise anyone's.

There is nothing worse than a proud stoic. -- The Big Why

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

Adolescent, Michel croyait que la souffrance donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire. Il devait maintenant en convenir: il s'était trompé. Ce qui donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire, c'était la télévision.

Prihvati ?injenicu da ljudi nemaju ni dostojanstva ni prava; da su dobro i zlo jednostavni pojmovi, jedva teoretizirani oblici užitka i boli. U svemu s ljudima postupaj jednako kao sa životinjama; zaslužuju razumijevanje i sažaljenje, kako zbog duše, tako i zbog tijela. Nastavi tim plemenitim i uzvišenim putem.

Ce qui donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire; c'était la télévision.