Top 1200 Human Dignity Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.

I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

When you accept and appreciate yourself you can handle any situation with class, dignity and respect.

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.

I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

We have given a government where people feel safe... we gave Dalits a life of dignity.

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.

A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite. We walk around like lightening in a bottle.

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.

When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, due to ageing, human memory can exhibit very poor short term recall.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

I don't go and ask my friends for favours. They are real, true, incredible amazing human beings with good hearts. They have evolved as human beings. I have evolved as a human being and I have let this wall down that I had.

For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect of human nature. And second, I think, it is a good model for studying other human properties, which ought to be studied by psychologists in the same way.

We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity.

Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of the defeated enemy. Nowadays, it is much more terrifying because a person in an office can push a button and kill millions of people and never see the human tragedy that he or she has created. The mechanization of war, the mechanization of human conflict, poses an increasing threat to peace.

I'll continue working to ensure that everyone - regardless of their background - is treated with the dignity and respect that they deserve.

I'm a lady, and I run my business with dignity. I don't need to be tough. You get nowhere screaming.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

I have come to understand that if we hope to build a better world, we must be guided by the universal human values that emphasize the kinship of the human race - the sanctity of human life and freedom, peace between nations, honesty and truthfulness, regard for the rights of others, and love of one's fellows.

Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

At the end of the day, I'm human. I'm English - I was born here. Of course I'm a different colour from you, but I'm still human. The main thing is, I'm human - like everyone else. Because I'm a different colour doesn't mean there is a difference.

It is only the BJP that gave dignity to the film business by giving it industry status.

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

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

I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.

On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity

Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I have to do is be myself and be dignified in my meditation and my lifestyle.

In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.

All human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.

There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

I'm a believer in private enterprise, the dignity of work, limited government, and the possibilities of freedom.

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after 50 years of brutal occupation, the three Baltic countries regained their independence, peacefully and with dignity. They chose hope over hate and showed the world that even through the darkest night, there is light. Please research it. Tell someone. These three tiny nations have taught us that love is the most powerful army. Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy - love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.