Top 1200 Human Dignity Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.

You will have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, just remember to always handle yourself with grace and dignity.

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

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

A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.

We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity

There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.

Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.

Human rights are standards of behavior that are inherent in every human being. They are the core principles underpinning human interaction in society. These include liberty, due process or justice, and freedom of religious beliefs. I find little sympathy with efforts to try to equate Internet access with these higher, fundamental concepts.

I have a great deal of spiritual dignity. It's on loan from eternity, and you do too, and we have to use it in our relationship with each other.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening public spaces.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.

Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

We must never forget the value of work because without it people are denied a sense of dignity and of community.

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.

If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!

The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.