Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
“Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule. — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity' infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Sir, I honor and respect the personal dignity of any man who respects my dignity.” — Frank Herbert 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
“Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life,… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition,… — Joseph Priestley 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
The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the… — T. Coleman Andrews Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of… — Alberto J. Mora Copy Share Image
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,'" I began, "infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity'… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image