Human Dignity Quotes

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

I do not support Hamas! I support human dignity and respect! I support sharing! I support Peace! #ceasefire

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

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.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

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.

[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.

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.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

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.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

Primarily, Warsaw and Brussels share the central basic values of the EU: human dignity, democracy, and the religious freedom of every single human being. We believe in these values.

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion.

Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values.

It can be accepted that there is a price for man's work, time spent or service done, but never for human dignity.

Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.

Yoga is the best tool for international peace, health, harmony and human dignity.

For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect

In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power

Freedom and dignity for everyone in the world, is the hardest thing to achieve, but we must not give up.