Quotes about Dignity

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Ah, if only one had work of one's own, proper work, decent work—not forced upon one by the griping of one's belly!

It is people who are important, not the masses.

I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man's dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency

A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will NOT have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.