Personal Dignity Quotes - Page 2

• I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Maintaining, Levels

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• I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

  Steven Morrissey

  Thinking, Imagination, Goes On

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

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• Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Liberty, Essentials, Dignity

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• Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

  Noam Chomsky

  Judging, Violence, Dignity

  "Noam Chomsky criticises old friend Hugo Chávez for 'assault' on democracy" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Dignity, Embrace

  "Angela Davis, Education and the Meaning of Freedom" by Henry A. Giroux, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Respect

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• It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

  William Ellery Channing (1840). “Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community”, p.25

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  One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

  Michael J. Fox

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  Imelda Marcos

  Life, Country, Rights

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

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• Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Heart, Men, Goes On

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Liberty, And Love, Individual Morality

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

  Olof Palme

  Political, Democracy, Dignity

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• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  Federica Montseny

  Liberty, Elements, Dignity

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• Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, May, Dignity

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.72, Beacon Press

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• A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fake People, Views, Dignity

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• Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

  William J. Clinton

  Independent, Self Worth, People

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• So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

  Bono

  Equality, Rights, Talking

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• Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Coats, Holiness

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.141

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• The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

  J. William Fulbright

  Differences, Peaceful, Culture

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• The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Apathy

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Independent, Dignity Of Work, Wealth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.343, Diversion Books

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• Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Bridges, White, America

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• Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Christian, Spiritual, Healing

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• Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

  George Santayana

  Men, Dignity, Despise

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.230, Рипол Классик

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• The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.

  Mitt Romney

  Fighting, Long, People

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