Dignity Quotes
1666 quotes by 1060 authors
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in…
— John Ralston Saul
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The dignity of history.
— Henry Fielding
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The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness,…
— George Sarton
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Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate…
— John Calvin
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing…
— Sophocles
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Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.
— L'Wren Scott
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I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become a revolutionary, if…
— Silvio Berlusconi
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All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or…
— Paul Claudel
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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social…
— Simone Weil
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Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live…
— Pope Francis
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The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus! No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they…
— Pope John Paul II
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I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their…
— Mother Teresa
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My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the earth…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage,…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a…
— Huey Newton
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The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want…
— Errico Malatesta
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The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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Our Heavenly Father hears the prayers of His children across the earth pleading for food to eat, for clothes to cover their bodies, and for…
— Henry B. Eyring
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