Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
From online local care portals to greater use of personal budgets we need wholesale change if we are to move the social… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
To me, my version of feminism, it's co-extensive with human rights and democracy. It's just part of the same fight for everyone… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support… — Clark Moustakas Copy Share Image
In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's election was a watershed moment. Even those like me, who had previously pulled levers for candidates of both parties, felt… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
“To lead by force all you need is a greater army, but to lead by example, to be a city on a… — Jonathan Maas Copy Share Image
You will be happy. Will it satisfy you if I say again I will keep a promise I made before? Tomorrow you… — Kim Do-Jin Copy Share Image
Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I'm happy that my journey of 'Bigg Boss' has ended. I would be happier if I was on the winning side, but… — Rahul Vaidya Copy Share Image
My purity manifests itself in countless ways, including an utter inability to sit idly when exposed to attacks on truth, reason, logic,… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Self-respect, dignity and grace are very important. You may look a certain way or come from a certain background but when you… — Esha Deol Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity. — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of sobering, civilizing effect that being president imposes on people. There is a certain kind of dignity… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I am a physician, and as a consequence I see things most clearly in medical terms. I am arguing that we need… — Izzeldin Abuelaish Copy Share Image
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people,… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with… — Cristina Henrxedquez Copy Share Image
I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Doing drugs is like anything else - predicated on taste, refinement, dignity, distinction, and originality. Cocaine is not cool, because it makes… — Hamilton Morris Copy Share Image
I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed,… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
When I talk with women who have had wonderful experiences in the military it's because their commanders treated them with respect and… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
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