Quotes about Dignity
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
— John Adams
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
— Pierre Corneille
That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.
— Nelson Mandela
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.
— Ricky Gervais
our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
— Michael Ignatieff
I love to see people just being regal in their own skin; it's just when they know who they are.
— Ava DuVernay
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.