(478 quotes found)
“Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance”
Elbert Hubbard
“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.”
Albert Einstein
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered”
Morton Kondrake
“The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.”
William Orville Douglas
“The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being”
Emma Goldman
“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter”
George Grenville
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Judy Garland
“In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .”
Bill Clinton
“All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view”
Napoleon Bonaparte
