Dignity Quotes - Page 9

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.

We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.