Quotes on Dignity

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

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity of each human person made in the image of God.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.