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One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.
Jesus was happy when people acknowledged his dignity and saddened when they did not, but he never sought their esteem or regard.
I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value.
As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.
Every institution has its own dignity, and if people don't respect the dignity of those institutions, it affects the whole system.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.
[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.
Treating everyone with dignity and respect is of utmost importance to me and are values we instill and take very seriously at Mylan.
Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
Confidence breeds confidence and negativity breeds negativity. Treat those around you with respect and dignity and they will thrive.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
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.
Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.
I've struggled to get respect and dignity for my profession, and I do it in the way I lead my life as a fighter and as a human being.
We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.
I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.
It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.
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.
I've always said when age or infirmity gets the better of me, I'm off to whichever civilised country lets the elderly die with dignity.
There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life
The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.
In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.
We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
I am the president of Poland, and I will never accept Poles being insulted or humiliated or facts being distorted that hurt our dignity.
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.
We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.
It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected.
What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.
Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with dignity.
'Peace' means rules respected by everyone - big or small, rich or poor - means cooperation. It means respect for human rights and dignity.
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.