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Dignity Quotes by William J. Brennan
- If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of…
- 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…
- 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…
- At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is…
- If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived…
- One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution.…
- The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
More Dignity Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man… — Francis Bacon
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just… — Antonio Banderas
- There is a certain dignity to being French. — Brigitte Bardot
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer