Quotes about Dignity

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.

Objection 2: Further, if it is a matter of argument, the argument is either from authority or from reason. If it is from authority, it seems unbefitting its dignity, for the proof from authority is the weakest form of proof. But if it is from reason, this is unbefitting its end, because, according to Gregory (Hom. 26), "faith has no merit in those things of which human reason brings its own experience." Therefore sacred doctrine is not a matter of argument.

Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.