Dignity Quotes - Page 36

• All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.

  Olympe de Gouges

  Equality, Office, Citizens

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• It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

  Al Sharpton

  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Passion, Heart, Mind

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.132

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• Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Children, Reason

  Barbara Coloroso (2010). “kids are worth it! Revised Edition: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Integrity, Justice, Independence

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• The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public spirit, and partaking of the life about them; preserving their identity as individuals and endeavoring to keep the settlement free from the institutional form of philanthropic work. ... the relationship is reciprocal.

  Lillian Wald

  People, Giving, Community

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• I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.

  Jess C Scott

  Pain, Self, Identity

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• A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.

  Vincent Piazza

  Tailored Suits, Certain, Customs

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• Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This whole faith-based initiative really ties into a larger cultural issue that we're working on. It begins to affect the life issue, as well as the human dignity issue, because when you're talking about welcoming people of faith to help people who are disadvantaged and are unable to defend themselves, the logical step is also those babies.

  George W. Bush

  Baby, Humor, Talking

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• The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of power. He was raised to the throne by the acclamations of his equals; and the title of Khan expresses, in the language of the North of Asia, the full extent of the regal dignity. The right of hereditary succession was long confined to the blood of the founder of the monarchy; and at this moment all the Khans, who reign from Crimea to the wall of China, are the lineal descendants of the renowned Zingis.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wall, Military, Successful

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus”, p.354, 谷月社

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• Education makes life self-reliant. It inspires man to live with dignity in the society. It is the foremost requisite of a teacher to identify his own virtues. He needs to live supported by his inherent virtues-and must continue to uphold them.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Teacher, Men

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• Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.

  Tom Rooney

  Senior, Party, Commitment

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• All people have dignity. Theres nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  People, Soul, Spirit

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• Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

  Rex Stout

  Two, Faces

  Rex Stout (2010). “Before Midnight”, p.201, Bantam

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• People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, People, Soul

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• The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet,
  Though to itself it only live and die'
  But if that flow'r with base infection meet,
  The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
  For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
  Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Weed, Sweet

  Sonnet 94

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• What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?

  Zhuge Liang

  Loss, Worry

  Liang Zhuge, Ji Liu (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Two, Political

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. May 1, 2014.

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• The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Reality, Men, Littles

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Children, Giving

  "Cory Booker Speech Text: Read The Democratic Convention Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

  Bruno Dumont

  Country, Artist, Critical

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• Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it “just being you”.

  John Wooden

  Thinking, Self, People

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

  Richard Carmona

  Integrity, Thinking, Office

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• Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.

  Timothy Egan

  Art, Jobs, Moving

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• To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

  Beth Moore

  Worthy Opponents, Worthy, Esteem

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.159, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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