Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and… — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by… — William Greider Copy Share Image
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A shambling, hairy, brutish, but probably very cunning creature with a big brain behind; so someone, I think it was Sir Harry… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Our aim was not to create profit, but jobs,' Sanchez Gordillo explained to me. This philosophy runs directly counter to the late-capitalist… — Dan Hancox Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its… — Maurice Franks Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
The violence that we had in the 60's was limited. The next time it will be unlimited because the violence in the… — Robert F. Williams Copy Share Image
The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
“much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.… — Arthur Austen Douglas Copy Share Image
I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me,… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
“The term 'person' has been coined to signify that a man cannot be wholly contained within the concept 'individual member of the… — John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Jehovah, who of all the good gods adored by men was certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the… — Bakunin Mikhail Copy Share Image
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Pierre-Jean Jouve writes: "poetry is a soul inaugurating form". The soul inaugurates. Here it is the supreme power. It is human dignity.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image