Quotes about Dignity
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.
- Pope John Paul II
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
- Oscar Wilde
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
- Virginia Woolf
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
- Zig Ziglar
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.
- Teresa of Avila
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
- John Adams
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
- Joseph Addison
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
- Pope John Paul II
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
- Cicero