Dignity Quotes
1666 quotes by 1060 authors
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The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art…
— Barbara Tuchman
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The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece…
— Keith O'Brien
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact…
— Maurice Saatchi
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Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
— Rebecca Solnit
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Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the…
— Ted Strickland
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Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least…
— Julie Walters
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I…
— Nate Mendel
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Our military offensive is indispensable, since force must be met by force. But our social offensive is the extra weapon which the enemy cannot produce.…
— Ramon Magsaysay
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Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
— Vaclav Havel
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Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity…
— George Mason
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There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!
— Woody Allen
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Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service.
— Michael E. DeBakey
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It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.
— Anne Murray
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Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role…
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
— Unknown Author
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The real tragedy is that we're all human beings, and human beings have a sense of dignity. Any domination by one human over another leads…
— Yusuf Idris
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If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly…
— Claude McKay
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