Dignity Quotes

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

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.

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.

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

The dignity of man is in free choice.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.

Death deserves dignity.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

What is dignity without honesty?

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.