Human Dignity Quotes

146 quotes by 103 authors

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries. — Kjell Magne Bondevik
I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their… — Salvatore J. Cordileone
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This… — Stanley Milgram
The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away… — Tom Clancy
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. — Henry Giroux
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. — Anthony Eden
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The violence that we had in the 60's was limited. The next time it will be unlimited because the violence in the 60's was a… — Robert F. Williams
The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda… — Reza Aslan
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common… — J. William Fulbright
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. — Herbert Hoover
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. — Imelda Marcos
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. — Richard M. Nixon
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. — John Charles Polanyi
The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human… — Mitt Romney
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values… — Jonathan Sacks
We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity. — Kathy Reichs
What people regard as vanityâ€”leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgottenâ€”I regard as the… — Paulo Coelho
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth,… — Ravi Zacharias

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