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Tag Name "Dignity" (1194)

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We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
Whitney M. Young
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Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldn't possibly withstand any more.
Anna Godbersen
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
Will Durant
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To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
William Arthur Ward
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
Alexander Pope
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Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.
James Gustave Speth
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Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.
William Boyd
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Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.
Bhagat Puran Singh
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We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.
Ted E. Brewerton
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Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.
William Cowper
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
Karl Kraus
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing
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A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.
William Ellery Channing
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Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Vartan Gregorian
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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.
Alec Guinness
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt
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[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.
C. S. Lewis
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley
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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
William Hazlitt
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We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.
Benjamin Netanyahu
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We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity
Matt Chandler
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The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most vile murder does not, in my view, release the state from constitutional restraint on the destruction of human dignity.
William J. Brennan
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
William J. Brennan
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