| "What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable." »Dominique de Menil |
| "It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature." »Albert Camus |
| "dignity is not negotiable. dignity is the honor of the family." »Vartan Gregorian |
| "If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile." »Yukio Mishima |
| "...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way." »Imgard Schloegl |
| "Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand." »George Santayana |
| "Where is there dignity unless there is honesty" »Cicero |
| "There is only one terminal dignity -- love." »Helen Hayes |
| "No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim." »Odetta |
| "He who hurries can not walk with dignity." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Love and dignity cannot share the same abode." »Ovid |
| "Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity." »Charles Gates Dawes |
| "dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together." »Ovid |
| "The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them." »Aristotle |
| "Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity." »W. Kelly Griffith |
| "One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered." »Michael J. Fox |
| "An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be." »Baroness Orczy |
| "Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." »Rabbi Abraham Heschel |
| "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble." »Washington Irving |
| "Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity." »Joey Adams |
| "Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." »Booker T. Washington |
| "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 |
| "We all do everything, share the work--there's no room around here for a star, for someone to think she's above the others. You're expected to pitch in on whatever needs doing. Nothing is beneath your dignity. But on the other hand, nothing is beyond your reach." »Frances Hasselbein |
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