Quotes about Dignity
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.
- Pierre Corneille
Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
- Pope John Paul II
Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
- Pope John Paul II
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
- Herbert Hoover
Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.
- Herman Melville
I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
- William McKinley
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
- Jimmy Carter