Top 1200 Human Dignity Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.

I don't believe in rebound relationships and happy sex. Everything has to happen with dignity.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

When you talk about a man like David Bowie, you have to go in there with dignity.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides.

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins notwithstanding, possess the same conditioning power as natural things. whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. this is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. whatever enters the human world of its own accord or is drawn into it by human effort becomes part of the human condition.

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.

I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.

While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.

The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

You can disagree, but it`s a personal belittling attack which is beneath the dignity of the presidency.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

Especially in a rich nation, there is absolutely no reason why everyone couldn't and shouldn't have a life of dignity.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Like all women, I am entitled to be treated with dignity and respect at work.

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.

If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning.

You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten