Dignity Quotes

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.