Quotes of: Human-dignity Keyword

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

George Santayana

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Benazir Bhutto

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

Brunello Cucinelli

We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.

Elizabeth Dole

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

Binyavanga Wainaina

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

Don King

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Madeleine Albright

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

Beth Moore

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

Stella Young

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

Cesar Chavez

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Aristotle

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Simple life Ethos If you must judge. Let your moral beacon guide you to a decision you can live with, If you feel generous, give with humility so others could live with dignity, If you became aware of injustice, your inaction or silence are part of i...

Honourable Defection

She was a most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down...

Hard Times

The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find a...

A Sense Of Life

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way un which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity -even under the most difficult circumstances- to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dign...

Man's Search for Meaning

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of i...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity. This is what philosopher Charles Taylor calls the 'affirmation of ordinary life.' It is the simple idea that ordinary people are fallible, and yet th...

What's So Great About Christianity

[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society took place year after year in a setting of traditional dignity and beauty. The great houses—Devonshire, Dorchester, Grosvenor, St...

Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

1984

Become a dignitary by treating others with dignity.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life