“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit;… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was 35. I was the oldest female VJ at Viacom ever. I left them, which at least preserved my dignity, because… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
When it comes to trans people, we have to acknowledge their humanity and their dignity and listen to their voices and celebrate… — Jeff Varner Copy Share Image
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
And it’s more. It’s about getting past that question of whats wrong with me, to knowing there’s nothing wrong, that you were… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
“Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after fifty years of… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being,… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
“You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It is difficult for me to wag my finger at you from so very far away, particularly as my heart aches for… — Noël Coward Copy Share Image
I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image