Top 1200 Human Dignity Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom... [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

People are tired of being kept from the dignity that allows them to make their own choices.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.

Treat everyone on the organization with respect and dignity whether it be the janitor or the president.

Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.

The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.

I have a lot of dignity and am my own woman who does not dance to anyone's tunes.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

Usually, family films have characters speaking with each other with much dignity and respect.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

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

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Self respect and dignity are more important for a woman than success.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

I put pressure on myself to be the best and to carry on the Blanchard name with dignity and with pride.

We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.

I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.

My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom ... the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.