Kofi Annan
Diplomat, Politician
"Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man."
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Dignity
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Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre."
Marcel Proust
Novelist
"A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity"
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"One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity."
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"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
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"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."
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"A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity."
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"The natural state of a human being is dignity."
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"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
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"The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore."
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"My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'"
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"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
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"Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels."
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"The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated."
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"The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted."
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"Dignity belongs to the conquered."
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"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
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"O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven"
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"No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge"
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"There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode."
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"But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect."
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"Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents."
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"Love and dignity cannot share the same abode."
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