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Dominique de Menil What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
Vartan Gregorian Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Albert Camus It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
Yukio Mishima If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
Martin Luther King, Jr. If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Imgard Schloegl ...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way.
Cicero Where is there dignity unless there is honesty
Odetta No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.
George Santayana Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
H. L. Mencken Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Chinese Proverb He who hurries can not walk with dignity.
Helen Hayes There is only one terminal dignity -- love.
Helen Hayes There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Ovid Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Henry Louis Mencken Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Dag Hammarskjld The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others.
Charles Gates Dawes Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Michael J. Fox One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Baroness Orczy An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
HANNAH MORE: _Floris,_ Pt. i., Line 85. Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
Joey Adams Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.
Rabbi Abraham Heschel Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Martin Luther King, Jr. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. viii., Line 488. Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Grover Cleveland A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Mark Siegler The coming together of two laudable movements -- death with dignity and cost containment -- concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die
Roosevelt, Eleanor If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being -- we can do it.
W. Somerset Maugham It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Whitney Moore, Jr. We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
Frances Hasselbein We all do everything, share the work--there's no room around here for a star, for someone to think she's above the others. You're expected to pitch in on whatever needs doing. Nothing is beneath your dignity. But on the other hand, nothing is beyond your reach.
Ernest Hemingway Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is
Tennessee Williams Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question.
Romain Cary Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Cary Humor is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
Pope John Paul II ??????the domain of the fundamental rights of the human person and respect for his dignity, of the progress of humanity, which cannot be at any price, of justice and equity, as well as the protection of the planet, all domains that concern the future of man a
Noel Coward Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Percy Bysshe Shelley I should like you to remember two or three fixed principles which shine through all the history of mankind. The first is that mere bigness is not greatness. There is no dignity, no nobleness, in mere bulk. The true greatness of a nation depends upon the c
Marc Chagall The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Lyndon B. Johnson The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today.
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
"I can't die with dignity. I H-A-V-E N-O DIGNITY!" (George)
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Persistence plus no dignity equals success.
Personifiers Unite! You have nothing to lose but Mr. Dignity.
"There was no dignity for anyone who worked on this film
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn
Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem.
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
"All humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
"The Death With Dignity committee." -- Crow T. Robot
"Vulcan dignity? How can I grant you what I don't understand." McCoy
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
"Dignity, hell! I got 3 bucks on this!" -- Col. Potter
"I can't take a chance on losing my dignity." Tom Servo
"DIE WITH DIGNITY, YOU VERMIN!" - Quigley
"Death with dignity, huh?" -- Tom Servo
"Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny." -- Twain
"Money can never replace dignity." -- Rom
"What would *you* know about dignity?" -- Tom Servo
"There's no dignity in life." -- Fry
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.
"Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack." - Quark
"Defuse it and run like hell." - Henry. "But with dignity." - Hawk

 

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