Dignity Quotes - page 3

Any man that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose. (Nelson Mandela)
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. View quote
Marc Chagall
Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense. View quote
John Ralston Saul
But basilicas of the greatest dignity and beauty may also be constructed in the style of that one which I erected, and the building of which I superintended at Fano. View quote
Vitruvius
Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example. View quote
Julie Garwood
Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity. View quote
Kathy Reichs
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Without dignity, identity is erased. (Laura Hillenbrand)
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground. View quote
Leon Panetta
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." View quote
Carl Schurz
I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need. View quote
Christine Gregoire
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights. View quote
Carol Bellamy
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. View quote
Federica Montseny
When boasting ends, there dignity begins. View quote
Owen D. Young
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family. View quote
Vartan Gregorian
There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States. View quote
Vicente Fox
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. (José Martí)
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies. View quote
José Martí
The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form. View quote
Daniel Webster
There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion. View quote
John Adams
In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. View quote
Kofi Annan