Human dignity Quotes

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

— Kathy Reichs

We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

— Dominique de Menil

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

— Anonymous

“I found the one who valued his greed over human dignity”

— Tobias Wade

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

— Pope Francis

Human dignity is more precious than prestige…

— Claude McKay

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

— Angela Merkel

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

— Federica Montseny

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your…

— John Oliver

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

— Olof Palme

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

— Ai Weiwei

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and…

— Steven Seagal

“All people must at all times have the complete freedom to decide where and how to live”

— Michael G. Kramer

What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion…

— Pankaj Mishra

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win…

— Hyman Rickover

“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

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of…

— Dominique de Menil

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is…

— Nayef Al-Rodhan

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be…

— George Orwell

..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“In his book "Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift", Paul Rahe writes, "Human dignity is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one's own…

— Mark Steyn

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of…

— Theodor Adorno

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“This is the tragedy of the postmodern age. The things that matter most in life, that are necessary for a humane society—ideals…

— Nancy Pearcey

The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time…

— Robert Shaw

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

“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only…

— Bernard Baruch

“To justify such direct forms of imperialism and oppression, whites developed the IDEA of whiteness to define a privileged social category elevated…

— Allan G. Johnson

“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

“The creature was very young. He was alone in a dread universe. I crept on my knees and crouched beside him. It…

— Anonymous

“I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with…

— Carl Sagan

“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of…

— Northrop Frye

“We have retreated from the perennial values. I don't think that we need any new values. The most important thing is to…

— Mikhail S. Gorbachev

“Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form…

— Shashi Tharoor