Dignity Quotes

All lived lives of dignity and repression.

~ Mary Lou Foster Cooper

…a man's value should be gauged by how much value he places on the entire concept of humanity.” - Dami K.

~ Ray Anyasi

I can’t do nothing for you either, Billy. You know that. None of us can. You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help somebody, he leaves himself wide open. He has to be cagey, Billy, you should know that as well as anyone. What could I do? I can’t fix your stuttering. I can’t wipe the razorblade scars off your wrists or the cigarette burns off the back of your hands. I can’t give you a new mother. And as far as the nurse riding you like this, rubbing your nose in your weakness till what little dignity you got left is gone and you shrink up to nothing from humiliation, I can’t do anything about that, either.

~ Ken Kesey

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

~ Helen Garner

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

~ Stella Young

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

~ Romain Gary

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

~ Rodrigo Duterte

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

~ Bono

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

~ Vartan Gregorian

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

~ Calvin Coolidge

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

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

~ Maurice Saatchi

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

~ Bernhard Von Bulow

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

~ Grover Cleveland

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

~ John Shelby Spong

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

~ John Charles Polanyi

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

~ William Ellery Channing

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

~ Erma Bombeck

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

~ Mason Cooley

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.

~ Morrissey

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

~ Steven Seagal

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

~ Arthur Ashe

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

~ Ellen Key

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

~ Wayne Dyer

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

~ Charlie Gonzalez

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

~ Maajid Nawaz

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

~ Bayard Rustin

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

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

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

~ Archibald Macleish