Quotes about Dignity
Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
- Pope John Paul II
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
- John Tillotson
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
- Abraham Lincoln
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
- Abraham Lincoln
To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
- Euripides
Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
- GK Chesterton
If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.
- Greg Koukl
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
- Mark Twain
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
- Pierre Corneille