Dignity Quote by Romain Gary

“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.”

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There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

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Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are…

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I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge…

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“He might all the same do a little something for us. We’re on our backs, doesn’t He see?' 'I’m doing my best, I tell you,' said Father Julien. 'I pray and I pray and I pray . . .' 'Even we find a way of doing something for the may- beetles.’ 'You don’t give a damn about the may-beetles, you…

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“Remember - when you came back from the states thirty years ago, and you had caught on to the importance of putting up a…

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“Progress always slows down before picking up again.”

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“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was identical to…

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If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

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They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

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I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel…

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I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in…

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The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with…

Cliff Curtis

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One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a…

Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

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I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to…

Malala Yousafzai

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Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve…

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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 view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's…

Stanley Milgram

The dignity of man is in free choice.

Max Frisch

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One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't…

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It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he…

Friedrich Schiller

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Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

G. Stanley Hall