Dignity Quotes

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. View quote
Steven Weinberg
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. View quote
Michael Fox
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity. View quote
Ruby Dee
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. View quote
Romain Gary
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
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)
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. View quote
Helen Hayes
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. View quote
Steve Biko
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. View quote
George Santayana
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. View quote
George Santayana
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. View quote
Michael Jackson
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. View quote
Booker T. Washington
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. View quote
Grover Cleveland
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. View quote
Denis Diderot
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. View quote
William Wordsworth
I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity. (Norbert Elias)
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love. View quote
Jose Bergamin
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea. View quote
Sean O`Casey
A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest. View quote
Paulo Coelho