Quotes About Dignity

No, I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

Great souls endure in silence.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

The people of great value are the people who have a noble inner man

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.

A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.