Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.
Rick Perlstein
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I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.
Richard Carmona
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We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.
Leon Panetta
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I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.
Julius Caesar
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Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.
Henry Giroux
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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
Erma Bombeck
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We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.
Elizabeth Dole
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We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.
Blase J. Cupich
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley
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All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
Paul Claudel
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall
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The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.
Kehinde Wiley
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In California, you can stretch your arms out and not be touching another person. You get space, sun and, in general, dignity.
Hasan Minhaj
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There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
John C. Maxwell
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There is no dignity in television.
Adam Savage
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A people must have dignity and identity.
Andrew Goodman
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Both villains and heroes are a bit boring, really, unless they're flawed and broken somehow. If they're not flawed and broken, then clearly they need to be broken and made flawed. That's what an author does if he or she has any dignity.
Ben Peek
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When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
Angela Merkel
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Victor Hugo
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We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
Stella Young
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The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.
Rand Paul
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Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.
Tom Rooney
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Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.
Oriana Fallaci
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Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
Ronald Knox
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