Dignity Quotes

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The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave. — Madeleine Albright
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and… — Joseph Wood Krutch
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights,… — Dick Gregory
Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any… — Samuel Johnson
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified. — Pope John XXIII
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth… — Michael Josephson
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them. — Blaise Pascal
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. — Ernest Hemingway
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster. — Bruce Catton
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect. — Primo Levi
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England. — Karel Capek
One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity. — Immanuel Kant
Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the… — Luigi Pirandello
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man. — Lucius Accius
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them. — Mohammed Dib

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