Dignity Quotes - Page 35

• A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.

  Vincent Piazza

  Tailored Suits, Certain, Customs

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• Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This whole faith-based initiative really ties into a larger cultural issue that we're working on. It begins to affect the life issue, as well as the human dignity issue, because when you're talking about welcoming people of faith to help people who are disadvantaged and are unable to defend themselves, the logical step is also those babies.

  George W. Bush

  Baby, Humor, Talking

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• We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed the most worthy of the heavenly present. The names of Seneca, of the elder and the younger Pliny, of Tacitus, of Plutarch, of Galen, of the slave Epictetus, and of the emperor Marcus Antoninus, adorn the age in which they flourished, and exalt the dignity of human natures.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Eye, Loss

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.583, e-artnow

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• The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of power. He was raised to the throne by the acclamations of his equals; and the title of Khan expresses, in the language of the North of Asia, the full extent of the regal dignity. The right of hereditary succession was long confined to the blood of the founder of the monarchy; and at this moment all the Khans, who reign from Crimea to the wall of China, are the lineal descendants of the renowned Zingis.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wall, Military, Successful

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus”, p.354, 谷月社

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• Education makes life self-reliant. It inspires man to live with dignity in the society. It is the foremost requisite of a teacher to identify his own virtues. He needs to live supported by his inherent virtues-and must continue to uphold them.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Teacher, Men

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• The UPA government is non-serious, it has taken the people for granted & it is not bothered about the youth. Their approach shows lack of faith in democracy. Our goal is to win the trust of the people & give dignity to them.

  Narendra Modi

  Taken, Winning, Government

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• Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.

  Joseph Beuys

  Circles, Creative, Would Be

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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

  Senior, Party, Commitment

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• All people have dignity. Theres nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  People, Soul, Spirit

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• Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

  Rex Stout

  Two, Faces

  Rex Stout (2010). “Before Midnight”, p.201, Bantam

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• I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women.

  Vladimir Putin

  Views, Jail, Pussy

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• As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Men, Life Is, Made

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• Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

  John Jay Hooker

  Treasure, Life Is, Great Experiences

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• People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, People, Soul

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• The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Liberty, Scripture

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• The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet,
  Though to itself it only live and die'
  But if that flow'r with base infection meet,
  The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
  For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
  Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Weed, Sweet

  Sonnet 94

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• What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?

  Zhuge Liang

  Loss, Worry

  Liang Zhuge, Ji Liu (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• Playboy magazine is now doing a 'Women of Enron' pictorial spread. ... Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred is their dignity.

  Jay Leno

  Magazines, Playboy, Spread

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• I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Two, Political

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. May 1, 2014.

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• The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Reality, Men, Littles

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

  Amy Ray

  Strong, Way, Music Is

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• You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Children, Giving

  "Cory Booker Speech Text: Read The Democratic Convention Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

  Bruno Dumont

  Country, Artist, Critical

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• There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Men, Way, Figures

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I dont know that the United States is Gods Country, but the church has been so strong here, and because of its influence, we hold life to be sacred and we believe that individuals have dignity. This is part of our legacy.

  Rich Mullins

  Country, Strong, Believe

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