Dignity Quotes - Page 18

• The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Communication, Pygmalion

  Pygmalion (1916) preface

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• He talked with more claret than clarity

  Susan Ertz

  Drinking, Clarity, Claret

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• Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.

  Gary Bauer

  Suicide, Believe, Government

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• A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being does not change depending on their circumstances.

  Pope John Paul II

  Exercise, Men, Animal

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• In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Struggle, Love Is

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• And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

  George Washington

  Perfection, World, Lasts

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1840). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.563

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• If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Years, Land

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.

  Emile Verhaeren

  Kings, Beer, Belgium

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• I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.

  Joey Cheek

  Sports, Fall, Thinking

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• The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Gay, Law, Overcoming

  "Justice Kennedy: DOMA Had to Go Because It 'Humiliates Tens of Thousands of Children'" by Erik Kain, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2013.

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• Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

  Rita Rudner

  Sarcastic, Mother, Sarcasm

  FaceBook post by Rita Rudner from Nov 13, 2012

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• Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Fingers

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.193, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Trust No One, People

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• No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

  William E. Conway, Jr.

  Cat, Animal, Rebel

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• I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Marriage, Littles

  Sophia Bedford-Pierce, Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Little Instruction Book”, p.23, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

  Edmund Yates

  Acceptance, Men, Law

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• Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

  Moses Harvey

  Love, Truth, Believe

  Moses Harvey (1886). “Where are We and Whither Tending?: Three Lectures on the Reality and Worth of Human Progress”

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• Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down upon their fellow creatures with contempt, esteeming them as dogs or devils, and imagining themselves beings of superior dignity and importance, to whom all are indebted. This banishes the idea, and unqualifies the mind for the practice of common justice.

  David Rice

  Dog, Pride, Practice

  David Rice (1812). “A Kentucky Protest Against Slavery: Slavery Inconsistent with Justice and Good Policy, Proved by a Speech, Delivered in the Convention, Held at Danville, Kentucky”, p.7

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• The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

  Martin Esslin

  Lying, Reality, Men

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• If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

  William J. Brennan

  Cities, Shining, Religion

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• Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Criticism, Age, Examination

  Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Pure Reason”, p.12, eKitap Projesi

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• People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

  Rollo May

  Life, People, Decision

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.

  Josephine Baker

  Attitude, Blow, Humanity

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• The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Matter, Opinion

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• To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

  Susan Sarandon

  Death, Dying, Way

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