Quotes on Personal Dignity

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

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

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

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

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

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

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

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.