Quotes about Dignity

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.

Furthermore, if our views of justice and morality were nothing more than neurochemistry hardwired into us, then we would lose the right to be morally outraged at such things as genocide, rape, murder, and racism. When we deny the dignity of humanity as created in God's image, we saw off the branch upon which we sit to defend it.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wailOr knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair,And what may quiet us in a death so noble.