Dignity Quotes
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.
Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community
All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.
Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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.
In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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.
One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us together, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity.
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.