Dignity Quotes

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Madeleine Albright

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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

Mikhail Bakunin

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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Karel Capek

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I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

Lisa Scottoline

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There is a certain kind of sobering, civilizing effect that being president imposes on people. There is a certain kind of dignity with which you comport yourself. As an observer of the presidency, I have to wonder if Trump would follow that pattern.

H. W. Brands

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I think everyone deserves dignity.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

Christine Gregoire

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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Dag Hammarskjold

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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Bono

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Aristotle

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I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Pope John Paul II

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The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Richard M. Nixon

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Jesus was happy when people acknowledged his dignity and saddened when they did not, but he never sought their esteem or regard.

Mother Angelica

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What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.

Kenny Dalglish

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I have a very good sense of tone, and it's possible to talk about very personal things and maintain a level of dignity and even privacy - to go to the place, to talk about it, but not get icky.

Jane Pauley

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A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

Henry Mayhew

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Ernest Hemingway

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After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Charlie Gonzalez

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Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

Budd Schulberg

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

William Ellery Channing

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