Quotes about Dignity

There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth, there is no legitimacy to monotony unless we assume a greater purpose to life, there is no purpose to life unless we assume design, death has no significance unless we seek what is everlasting.

But my father also supported human rights, freedom and self-determination for all people, including Latino agricultural workers, Native Americans, and the millions of impoverished white men and women who were treated as second-class citizens.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.