Quotes about Dignity
Life without decency is unbearable.
- Albert Nobbs
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
- Laurence Sterne
By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
- Jimmy Carter
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
- Harry S. Truman
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
- Frederick Douglass
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
- Aristotle
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington