Dignity Quotes - Page 7

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.

The demeaning of dignity is almost the only reason for a fight.

Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.

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.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

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

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

My dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest-working man I ever knew. It's because of him that I learned from my youngest age to respect the dignity of work and the dignity of working people.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

The most attractive quality of all is dignity.

Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.