Dignity Quotes

1666 Dignity quotes by 1060 unique authors

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution.… — Joe Biden
No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim. — Odetta
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether… — Pope John XXIII
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is… — William Hazlitt
Human dignity is more precious than prestige.... — Claude McKay
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write… — Ronald D Dworkin
You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed… — Pope Benedict XVI
Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of… — Ken Blanchard
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong… — Herman Wouk
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. . . . As… — Helen Keller
The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of… — Chogyam Trungpa
In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not… — Norbert Wiener
I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity. — Norbert Elias
There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So… — Richard Rorty
I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty… — M.F.K. Fisher
I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about water for those… — Chris Hani
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution.… — William J. Brennan
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there… — John Selden
The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity,… — Rod Serling
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge. — Max Frisch
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge — Jack Kerouac
The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays — Stanley Elkin
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity — Barbara Boxer

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