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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. -- John Charles Polanyi
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. -- Herbert Hoover
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. -- Federica Montseny
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. -- Imelda Marcos
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. -- James Thurber
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. -- Mikhail Bakunin
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom. -- Olof Palme
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. -- William J. Clinton
Terrorism is contempt for human dignity. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. -- Angela Merkel
How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity. -- Pope Francis
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring. -- Maurice Saatchi
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. -- Richard M. Nixon
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice. -- Kim Dae-jung
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. -- Henry Giroux
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity. -- Salvatore J. Cordileone
Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free. -- Noam Chomsky
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. -- Dominique de Menil
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want. -- Nelson Mandela
Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity. -- Ralph Bunche
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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. -- Steven Biko
Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong. -- Poul Hartling
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. -- Bono
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world. -- J. William Fulbright
The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long. -- Mitt Romney
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Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. -- George Washington
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 F. Kennedy
Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality. -- Ban Ki-moon
There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time. -- Ban Ki-moon
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies. The more people there are, the less one individual matters. -- Isaac Asimov
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. -- Jonathan Sacks
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life. -- Frances Moore Lappé
Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Human dignity should be without borders. -- Geena Rocero
Human dignity is more precious than prestige.... -- Claude McKay
Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity. -- Allan Dare Pearce
Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence. -- Maria Montessori
The natural state of a human being is dignity. -- Robert Kennedy
Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity. -- Kathy Reichs
No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity. -- Khaled Abou El Fadl
No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work. -- Beryl Markham
We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect -- Madonna Ciccone
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity -- Nelson Mandela
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. -- Laura Hillenbrand
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life. -- George W. Bush
Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality. -- Tony Fernandes
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? -- Ai Weiwei
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good. -- Pope Francis
History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation -- William J. Clinton
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. -- Robert Casey
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. -- Anthony Eden
This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity. -- Shmuley Boteach
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being. -- Rudolf Rocker
Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs. -- William Boyd
For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human. -- Izzeldin Abuelaish
Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life. -- Mark Van Doren
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. -- Bruce Schneier
I do not support Hamas! I support human dignity and respect! I support sharing! I support Peace! #ceasefire -- Madonna Ciccone
We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings. -- Barack Obama
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. -- Robert C. Maynard
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God. -- Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity. -- Benjamin Carson
Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator. -- John Ashcroft
If we're told that human ain't the highest among creatures,then it'd be difficult to raise human dignity into current level. -- Toba Beta
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility? -- Robert Casey
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. -- John Charles Polanyi
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it. -- Richard Wagner
Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul. -- Arthur Bryant
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
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people. -- Leon Trotsky
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster. -- Bruce Catton
A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function -- Gottfried Bohm
The language of science?and especially of a science of man?is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity. -- Thomas Szasz
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. -- Helen Prejean
I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals. -- Steven Seagal
The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles. -- Martin Schulz
When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance. -- John Oliver
All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity. -- Pope Francis
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity. -- R. C. Sproul
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, oneâ??s own and that of other people. -- Leon Trotsky
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman. -- Pope Francis
All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love. -- Hillary Clinton
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens. -- Ronald Reagan
Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own. -- Pope Francis
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
a truth our socetiy must not lose sight of and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every indvidual -- Frank Peretti
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain. -- Martha Gellhorn
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. -- Michael E. DeBakey
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Every single human being is created in the image of God; created for dignity, created for the Father's love, created for kindness, created for mercy. -- Heidi Baker
Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal? -- Louis Pasteur
I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough. -- Mike Huckabee
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
The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equality. -- Sam Brownback
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person. -- John Courtney Murray
A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings. -- David Packard
Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self. -- Trent Lott
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task. -- Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity. -- Cesar Chavez
The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being. -- Malcolm X

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