We learn to treasure words that people call us; we learn to live by words that hurt. We cannot toss them aside,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
My father was at the forefront of the economic justice movement - fighting for and with Black women who were on welfare… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
My mother is a rock. She's my rock, she's Ariana's rock, and she has been a huge example of how to get… — Frankie Grande Copy Share Image
Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Everything is different circumstances, but the dignity of transness is that we get to be different individuals, have different stories, and connect… — Lux Pascal Copy Share Image
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The book was written to embody an ideal. It was given to people who already had momentum in doing what was right.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Some people measure the worth of good actions only by their natural qualities or their difficulty, giving the preference solely to what… — Jean-Pierre Camus Copy Share Image
The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“What's really important for people, what really has dignity, is how they die. Compared to that, he thought, how you lived doesn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Purpose of writing this article is not to hurt someone's heart, I just tried to remind the violation of their dignity in… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed sees dignity and peace as emerging… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every… — Edmund Yates Copy Share Image
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals,… — Sarah Louise Delany Copy Share Image
Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful things you can do in this world is forgive others. We are designed to have flaws and… — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“The American's literature is all about being hot and sexy, inspiring a girl and going to bed with her. It focuses on… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man in his right mind; who loves a woman truly and respects her would ever advise her to compromise her pride… — POB Bismark Copy Share Image
I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said,… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image