Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and dignity.

Be pure, live a conscientious life, defend your dignity and be loving to others.

Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.

With my simple writings I want to change the mindset of humanity so that they themselves can create a positive new world where they can live with dignity and peace.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

What is dignity without honesty?

The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.

Man is not just a stomach... . Above all he hungers for dignity.

What could be more essential in a pluralistic society like ours than that every citizen see dignity in every other human being everywhere?

The real tragedy is that we're all human beings, and human beings have a sense of dignity. Any domination by one human over another leads to a loss of some part of his dignity. Is one's dignity that big it can be crumbled away like that?