Dignity Quotes - Page 26

• I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Marriage, Littles

  Sophia Bedford-Pierce, Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Little Instruction Book”, p.23, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

  Edmund Yates

  Acceptance, Men, Law

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• Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

  Moses Harvey

  Love, Truth, Believe

  Moses Harvey (1886). “Where are We and Whither Tending?: Three Lectures on the Reality and Worth of Human Progress”

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• Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down upon their fellow creatures with contempt, esteeming them as dogs or devils, and imagining themselves beings of superior dignity and importance, to whom all are indebted. This banishes the idea, and unqualifies the mind for the practice of common justice.

  David Rice

  Dog, Pride, Practice

  David Rice (1812). “A Kentucky Protest Against Slavery: Slavery Inconsistent with Justice and Good Policy, Proved by a Speech, Delivered in the Convention, Held at Danville, Kentucky”, p.7

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• The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

  Martin Esslin

  Lying, Reality, Men

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• If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

  William J. Brennan

  Cities, Shining, Religion

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• Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Criticism, Age, Examination

  Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Pure Reason”, p.12, eKitap Projesi

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• People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

  Rollo May

  Life, People, Decision

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.

  Josephine Baker

  Attitude, Blow, Humanity

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• The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Matter, Opinion

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• To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

  Susan Sarandon

  Death, Dying, Way

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• What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

  Robin Williams

  Death, Fighting, Humanity

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Justice, Leader

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• If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America - even those designated as ‘unlawful enemy combatants.’ If you make this exception, the whole Constitution crumbles.

  Alberto J. Mora

  Men, Rights, Law

  "The Memo". Interview with Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. February 27, 2006.

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• Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Laughter, Boredom

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.170, The Floating Press

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

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Fate, Shapes

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Names, Honor

  Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Ernest Hemingway (2009). “Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms”, p.49, Infobase Publishing

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• I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Girl, Growing Up, Believe

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• Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the values of manhood and the military honor...Fight them because with their defeat you will be at the last entrance of the conquest of all conquests. The war will end with...dignity, glory, and triumph for your people, army, and nation.

  Saddam Hussein

  Children, Military, War

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• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Government, Common Sense

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Hate, War

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• What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Great Ones

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

  Aristotle

  Intelligent, Talent, Doomed

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• If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Feelings

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 16 (1932)

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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Writing, Mean, Style

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