Dignity Quotes - Page 6

• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  Victor Hugo

  Slave Owners, Debtors, Masters

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• The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

  Lech Walesa

  Rights, Effort, Hatred

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• Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Inspirational, Mediocrity, Aloofness

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• Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

  Jose Saramago

  Ends, Concessions, Loses

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• Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

  Budd Schulberg

  Comfort, Fighter, Consideration

  "Barry Mcguigan: Brilliant Schulberg Budd was more than a contender", www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2009.

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• The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

  Ali Khamenei

  Honor, Enemy, Vote

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• If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

  Hortense Odlum

  Determination, Jobs, Giving

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• There's no doubt that Mexican men and women - full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work - are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

  Vicente Fox

  Men, Mexican, Doubt

  "Fox Regrets Racial Remark". www.cbsnews.com. May 16, 2005.

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• Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Country, Independent, Borders

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

  Olof Palme

  Political, Democracy, Palms

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• A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.

  James Atlas

  Reputation

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• My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

  Adam Savage

  Television, Fierce

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

  Paul Claudel

  Expression, Everything Happens For A Reason, Parables

  "Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet". Book by Liz Greene, p. 15, 1977.

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• Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Wall, Rights, World

  "Kofi Annan and U.N. Accept 2001 Nobel Peace Prize", www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2001.

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• A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, People, Needs

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• Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

  Emma Goldman

  Lying, Men, Self

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

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• Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

  George Santayana

  Courage, Humility, Men

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

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• A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fake People, Views, Loses

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• In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

  Pope John XXIII

  Truth, Rights, Justice

  'Pacem in Terris' (1963)

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• The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

  Edward Bellamy

  Democracy, Principles, Individual

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Equality: American literature”, p.23, VM eBooks

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• What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.

  Kenny Dalglish

  Example, Needs

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• There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Broadway, Stature

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• Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

  Oriana Fallaci

  People, Voting, Faces

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

  T. E. Lawrence

  People, Honor, Mesopotamia

  "Report on Mesopotamia". The Sunday Times, August 22, 1920.

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• Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Strength, Leadership

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