Dignity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
-- Adam Savage -
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
-- Alan Keyes -
How long before my dignity is reclaimed?
-- Alanis Morissette -
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
-- Alexander Pope -
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
-- Alexander Pope -
Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
-- Ali Khamenei -
Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.
-- Amy Ray -
The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten
-- Anderson Cooper -
To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.
-- André Brink -
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
-- Andre Malraux -
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
-- Angela Merkel -
I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.
-- Anne Murray -
All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.
-- Anthony Douglas -
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.
-- Anthony Eden -
The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.
-- Arne Glimcher -
It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity
-- Barbara Boxer -
... because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are ...
-- Barbara Coloroso -
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
-- Bayard Rustin -
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
-- Ben Jonson -
[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.
-- Benjamin Carson -
It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.
-- Bertrand Russell -
No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.
-- Beryl Markham -
The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.
-- Beth Moore -
To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.
-- Beth Moore -
Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.
-- Bhagat Puran Singh -
You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.
-- Bill McDermott -
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.
-- Bruce Catton -
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
-- Bruce Schneier -
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?
-- Bruce Sterling -
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
-- Bruno Dumont -
Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense of beauty and a sense of dignity and a sense of living life to the full that infects everyone.
-- Bruno Heller -
Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
-- Budd Schulberg -
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
In love swallow your pride but never your dignity.
-- Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
-- Carol Bellamy -
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
-- Carolyn Wells -
My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'
-- Cary Grant -
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
-- Charles G. Dawes -
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 their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden -
Human dignity is more precious than prestige....
-- Claude McKay -
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.
-- Claude McKay -
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
-- Cybill Shepherd -
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin -
log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.
-- Daniel Shanks -
I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout
-- Dean Alfange -
To graciously receive is an expression of the dignity of giving.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
-- Denis Diderot -
Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.
-- Diane Watson -
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
-- Dominique de Menil -
We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
-- Dominique de Menil -
There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.
-- Doris Humphrey -
There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.
-- Edith Hamilton -
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
-- Edward Bellamy -
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
-- Elizabeth I -
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
-- Ellen Key -
In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.
-- Emile Verhaeren -
If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.
-- Evan Esar -
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
-- Federica Montseny -
a truth our socetiy must not lose sight of and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every indvidual
-- Frank Peretti -
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.
-- George Benson -
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
-- George Grenville -
The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.
-- George Orwell -
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
-- George Santayana -
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
-- George Santayana -
Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
-- George Stillman Hillard -
What is liberty? The measure of dignity.
-- Giannina Braschi -
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
-- Gloria E. Anzaldúa -
Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
-- Greg Lake -
¡Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!
-- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer -
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.
-- Gustavo Gutiérrez -
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.
-- Harry Connick, Jr. -
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
-- Havelock Ellis -
Every single human being is created in the image of God; created for dignity, created for the Father's love, created for kindness, created for mercy.
-- Heidi Baker
