Dignity Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Simple, Often Is

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Pigs, Elephants

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• Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 10, 2014

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• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  Rahul Dravid

  Team, Sadness, Pride

  "Rahul Dravid Retires From Cricket 'With Sadness But Also With Pride'". www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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• 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.

  Helen Prejean

  Religious, Heart, Compassion

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• The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most vile murder does not, in my view, release the state from constitutional restraint on the destruction of human dignity.

  William J. Brennan

  Views, Humanity, Doe

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• With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the state punishes with death, it denies the humanity and dignity of the victim and transgresses the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. That day will be a great day for our country, for it will be a great day for our Constitution.

  William J. Brennan

  Country, Believe, Punishment

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• At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.

  William J. Brennan

  Country, Practice, Battle

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• The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life who will proclaim, celebrate, and serve the Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. I renew the appeal I made ... for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.

  Pope John Paul II

  Taken, Evil, Pro Life

  "A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World".

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• The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the light. The most important source of light we can come to know is the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is the source of inner strength and peace.

  James E. Faust

  Light, Self, Tree

  James E. Faust (1990). “Reach Up for the Light”, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Giving, Balance, Looks

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity fair. With illustr. by the author”, p.77

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• Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

  Hannah More

  May, Crime, Habit

  'Florio' (1786) pt. 1, l. 77

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• For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions. Human dignity is the right to health, work, education and social welfare. Human dignity is the right and the practical possibility to shape the future with others. These rights, the rights of democracy, are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  Olof Palme

  Rights, People, Political

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• We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

  Jane Addams

  Women, Believe, Desire

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.12, Youcanprint

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• If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Men, Rights, Republic

  Howard Mumford Jones (1952). “The Bright Medusa”

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• For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What is needed is a rights-based approach to development. Ensuring essential political, economic and social entitlements and human dignity for all people provides the rationale for policy. These are not a luxury affordable only to the rich and powerful but an indispensable component of national development efforts.

  Kofi Annan

  Powerful, Rights, Luxury

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• We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we've got to say: look, we're all in this together. We are human beings.

  David Kaczynski

  Equality, Justice, Hatred

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• We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Rights, Racism

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

  Tony Fernandes

  Mean, Rights, Individual

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• The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It is only through the pursuit of practical and effective efforts to promote human rights that we show our real commitment to the welfare of individuals and society.

  Alexander Downer

  Real, Commitment, Rights

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• All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, People, Lgbt

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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