Quotes about Dignity

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Vulgarity, in my mind, is not cool.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him