Dignity Quotes

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What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity… — Robin Williams
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them… — Thomas Sowell
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government.… — Alberto J. Mora
We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly. — Albert Einstein
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. — Ovid
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory,… — Ernest Hemingway
I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A… — Ban Ki-moon
Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the… — Saddam Hussein
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and… — Leo Tolstoy
In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents. — Aristotle
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the… — Ernest Hemingway
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate. — Aristotle
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in… — Bill Brandt
Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to… — Mahatma Gandhi
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -… — Peter Singer
My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was… — Rahul Dravid
The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity… — Helen Prejean
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most… — William J. Brennan
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the state punishes with… — William J. Brennan

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