Human Dignity Quotes
Human Dignity Quote of the day
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.
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.
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.
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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.
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.
Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.
Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.
The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves.
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.
Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.
Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.
The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.
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.
We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.
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?
The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.
Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.