Personal Dignity Quotes

• Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Country, Independent, Borders

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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  Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspiring, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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

  Angela Merkel

  Dignity, Compromise, Humans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Dignity, Human Dignity, Humans

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

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• America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Determination, Self, America

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Respect, Inspirational Life, Warrior

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Dignity, Terrorism, Contempt

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• Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, Dignity, Should

  "Obama's Tarnished Saint" by Adam B. Lerner, www.politico.com. November 12, 2014.

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• All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Work, Teaching

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

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• They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Success, Work

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• 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.

  Steven Biko

  Country, Men, Black

  Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage

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

  Jonathan Ive

  Kindness, Business, Comeback

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• Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Men, Dignity

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• Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Liberty, Essentials, Dignity

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• Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Dignity, Embrace

  "Angela Davis, Education and the Meaning of Freedom" by Henry A. Giroux, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

  Romain Gary

  Positive, Laughter, Work

  Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.130, New Directions Publishing

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

  George Santayana

  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”

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• The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

  George Santayana

  Reality, Imagination, Degrees

  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

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• Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life Lesson, Believe, Memorial

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

  Steven Morrissey

  Thinking, Imagination, Goes On

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

  Noam Chomsky

  Judging, Violence, Dignity

  "Noam Chomsky criticises old friend Hugo Chávez for 'assault' on democracy" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

  Greg Lake

  Dignity, Comeback, Defeat

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• Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  Karel Capek

  Inheritance, Literature, England

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• 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

  Inspirational, Work, Writing

  Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 Sept. 1895

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