Dignity Quotes - Page 40

• Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 11: "The Thinkers", p. 158, 1970.

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• When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Human Dignity, Humans

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

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• Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

  Eliza Lynn Linton

  Weed, Poverty, Bitter

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• The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.

  William M. Evarts

  Men, Light, People

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• Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

  Christina Baldwin

  Sacred, Sparks, Way

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.

  Sophia Tolstaya

  Morning, Two, Insane

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• Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Morality

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• If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

  Adam Savage

  Mythbusters, Humiliating, Has Beens

  "MythBusters". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

  Desmond Tutu

  Live Life, Feels, Inferiors

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• We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Home, Land

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• If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.

  Barack Obama

  Love, Sex, Couple

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• Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Life, Fighting, Rights

  "Can Bernie Sanders win black voters?" by Nia-Malika Henderson and Chris Moody, www.cnn.com. July 27, 2015.

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• It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Space, Mind, Astronomy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

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• The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Differences, Two

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• The two black lines on the armband means that they're the deceased's family. One line means they are either friends or acquaintances. One line of the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines, they'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life, and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.

  Yoon Sang-hyun

  Farewell, Heart, Mean

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• I love you, Im Meahri. I'm sorry because you suffered alone. For admitting it so late, I am sorry. You aren't going anywhere now. I am not letting you go anywhere.

  Yoon Sang-hyun

  Sorry, Love You, Admitting

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• I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it to death. The moment that I heard that Meahri was leaving, I thought the world was ending because at that moment, I was full of regret. I was avoiding, not thinking, and pretending it wasn't what my heart was hoping for earlier. I'm sorry, because I've made Meahri cry so many times. I'll do well. I'll take care of her forever. Tae-sang, this is my first and last request of you. Just this once, forgive me.

  Yoon Sang-hyun

  Sorry, Regret, Heart

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• No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Knowing, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.

  Ed Murray

  People, Community, Granted

  "Seattle mayor proposes all-gender single-occupant public bathrooms". www.businessinsider.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Tragedy, Way

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• Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Weight, Littles

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• It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

  Pope Francis

  Nature, Struggle, Priorities

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• Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others
  cannot be true liberty.

  Oscar Romero

  Hate, Mean, Liberty

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• It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and
  actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Years, Opinion

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.5, Fig

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• Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

  Alan Beck

  Cutting, Boys, Hair

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