Human Dignity Quotes

146 quotes by 106 authors

Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and… — Barack Obama
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social… — Simone Weil
I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their… — Mother Teresa
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life… — Vissarion Belinsky
On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront… — Barack Obama
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
Human dignity is more precious than prestige.... — Claude McKay
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
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
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. — Federica Montseny
Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to sit… — Harry Bridges
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring. — Maurice Saatchi
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of… — Theodor Adorno
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither… — Pope Pius X
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the… — Huey Newton
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world,… — Isaac Asimov
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of… — George Washington
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it. — Richard Wagner
A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small,… — Aung San Suu Kyi
I mean, itâ€™s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and… — Noam Chomsky

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