Dignity Quotes - Page 24

• Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control to the mother is also the safest approach.

  Michel Odent

  Inspiring, Mother, Medicine

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• Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

  Flora Lewis

  Philosophy, Democracy, May

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• I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

  Quality, Guarantees, Progressive

  "Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph". Book by Nayef Al-Rodhan, 2009.

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• Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us together, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity.

  Ashok Gangadean

  Creativity, Names, Honor

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• Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

  John Ashcroft

  Christian, People, Scary

  Remarks addressed to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, February 19, 2002.

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• Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.

  Julius Evola

  Citizens, Facts, Abstract

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• It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.

  George Clooney

  Gay, Rights, Law

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• In a very real way, the poor are our teachers. They show us that people’s value is not measured by their possessions or how much money they have in the bank. A poor person, a person lacking material possessions, always maintains his or her dignity. The poor can teach us much about humility and trust in God.

  Pope Francis

  Teacher, Real, Humility

  Pope Francis (2017). “Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Material Existence and the Meaning of Life”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

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• Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. We all can treat one another with dignity and respect, provide opportunities to grow toward our fullest lives and help one another discover and develop our unique gifts. We each deserve this and we all can extend it to others.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Unique, Opportunity

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• The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly enjoy the divine inspiration and will be prepared to stand for the dignity of Man and true freedom and to keep the Law of God, even of it means martyrdom or death.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Inspiration, Mean, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.29, SCM Press

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• Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.

  Laurence Boldt

  Artist, Men, Careers

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.184, Penguin

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• Time will break all of the old habits and create new ones for you, and in the process, you will try to handle this immense pain with dignity (because you're that kind of girl). You actually will have to move on and you actually will be fine and that's when he may actually miss how incredible and special you are.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Pain, Moving

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• The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.

  Robert Greene

  Waiting, Doubt, Different

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• Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Behaviour, Outcomes, Lasts

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• In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.

  Molly Ivins

  Groups, Needs, Firsts

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• What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

  Gaston Bachelard

  Substance, Nouns, Body

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• When it's over it should be over. When a man is no longer at risk, he loses touch. I think these fellows who think they have some long-term right to dignity and salary and expense accounts and company planes are all wrong. On December 21, 1963 I walked out of there and said that's it: no office, no secretaries. Nothing.

  Ralph J. Cordiner

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.

  Price Pritchett

  Pride, Vanity, Self

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• Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, Responsibility, Men

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• The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

  Confucius

  Men, Gentleman, Ease

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• It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Government, Space, Atoms

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• Dignity is the reward of obeying your heart.

  Wes Fesler

  Heart, Rewards, Obeying

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• When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your heart. For the world has a way to dismantle your cause, to exploit what you lack and expose all your flaws. But when every layer of your being is gone, and it seems there's no point anymore to go on; just remember one thing, at the end of the day, when you have self-respect they can't take that away.

  Wes Fesler

  Heart, Self, The End Of The Day

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• On that day, we couldn't reach the conclusion whose hero is the strongest. And today when we are 41 years old, we can protect neither the Earth nor the women we love. We are now just the anti-heroic men, struggling with everyday life. Those boys wo wanted to become heroes... where did they all go? Whose heroes can we become at the end?

  Kim Do-Jin

  Struggle, Hero, Boys

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• A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Ideas, Really Great

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1106, Delphi Classics

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