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  • Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

  • Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

    Heart   Men   Goes On  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

    "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.
  • Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  • The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

    Mean   People   Voting  
  • Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

    Needs   Care   Common  
  • The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

    Jackie Robinson, Alfred Duckett (2013). “I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson”, p.33, Harper Collins
  • Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

    People   Coats   Holiness  
    Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.141
  • What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.

    "On Liberty". Philosophical work by John Stuart Mill, 1859.
  • They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

    Life   Success   Work  
  • Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

    Courage   Humility   Men  
    George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”
  • In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

    Believe   Race   Profound  
    Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.
  • It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

    W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.343, Diversion Books
  • The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

    George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.70, MIT Press
  • All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • 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.

  • Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

    Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.75, Penguin
  • Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

    Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr
  • Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

  • There is only one terminal dignity - love.

    Love   Glimpse   Dignity  
    Guideposts, January 1960.
  • The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.

    Pride   Men   Self  
  • The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

    Country   Men   Black  
    Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage
  • Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

    Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.130, New Directions Publishing
  • Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

  • The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

  • Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

    Sex   Love Is   Thieves  
  • In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

  • The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  • When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

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