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“The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.”

“[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.”

Ends Fall Worry Dignity Get Up Brushes Preservation Humiliated Hens Coyotes Accordions

Author:Chuck Jones

“Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.”

Ends Loses Dignity Concessions

Author:Jose Saramago

“Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.”

Should Mind Humans Mean Ends Winning Liberty Class Bears Dignity Our Society Human Dignity

Author:Hyman Rickover

“The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.”

Source: My Disillusionment in Russia

“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.”

Trying Humans Ends Concerned Dignity Performances Human Dignity Semblance

Author:John Oliver

“We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.”

People Want Humans Ends States Order Sides Human Beings Dignity Independent Misery Palestinian Israeli

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.”

Doe Ends Hands Conditions Dignity Mere Kingdoms Relative Replaced

Author:Immanuel Kant

“But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.”

Mean Ends Purpose Turns Individual Society Tools Dignity Ultimate Criminals Destroyed Decent Makers

Book:A land of our own: an oral autobiography

Source: A land of our own: an oral autobiography

“The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.”

Way Ends Seems Honor Dignity British Compromise Inscrutable

Author:Mahmud Tarzi

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

Humans Mean Ends Justice Democracy Achieve Promise Dignity Sacred Human Dignity Peace And Justice

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.”

Men Mean Doe Ends Hands Wealth Greatness Honor Goodness Authority Dignity Valuable Stations Obscure Private Life Conducting Exemplary Greatest Man

Author:John Jortin

“Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.”

Way Firsts Wells Ends Difficult Attitude Morning Dignity Treats Contracts Cynicism Negativity Making Changes Difficult Things Dignity And Respect

Author:Rick Pitino

“Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”

Thinking Men Made Ends Whole Order Human Nature Duty Ought Dignity Merit Thoughtful

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one's own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.”

Wells Has Beens Real Ends Wisdom Life Is Process Our Lives Dying Events Acceptance Dignity Appreciation Recognition Life Well Lived

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.”

Has Beens Two Ends Week Dignity Legends Could Have Been Two Weeks Barcelona

Author:Cesc Fabregas

“To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.”

Ends Dignity Loyalty Manhood

Book:The Taste of Death and the Life of Grace

Source: The Taste of Death and the Life of Grace

“Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest numbers of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.”

Source: The Works of John Adams: Controversial papers of the Revolution (continued) Works on government

“Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.”

Ends Dignity Boast

Book:The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts

Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts

“The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.”

People Men Made Ends States Father Dignity Titles Tyrants Founders Commodity Inventor Antiquity Endowment Estimation Demigods

Author:Francis Bacon

“Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.”

Knows Men Children Ends Earth America Culture Language Nations Dignity Every Man Men Women

Author:Barack Obama

“Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.”

Ends Suffering Poverty Dignity Meaningful Assault Demeaning

Book:Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.”

“Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him.”

Mind Ends Character Names Principles Divine Holy Dignity Notion Administration Related Immortal Attributes Reverence Everlasting Piety Felicity

Author:William Samuel Johnson

“It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.”

“I was watching the TV broadcasts interviewing people stranded at airports for days on end, losing their holidays, their important business meetings and the long-awaited ability to see their families... In short, suffering. No one complained, though! They kept repeating: we are so grateful for the care taken of our safety, for feeling. They were ready to surrender a good deal of their human dignity, individuality, freedom of choice.”

“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”

Ends Reality Imagination Poet Degrees Dignity Importance Personal Dignity

Book:The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

“The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.”

Believe Wells Children Has Beens Ends Self Fighting I Believe Easy Justice Pay Cases Dignity Our Children Corruption Our Family Officers Holding On Tolls Power Corrupts Corrupt Society

Author:Frank Serpico

“If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them.”

People Ifs Mean Ends Would Be Choices Force Heaven Decision Dignity Treats Deny Immoral Freedom Of Choice Free Choice Means To An End

Author:J.P. Moreland

“Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.”

Ifs May Ends Sometimes Moments Faces Choices Left Realizing Grace Awareness Dignity Instant Not Sure Right Thing You Choose Doing The Right Thing Wrong Choices Watersheds

Author:Mira Grant

“To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.”

Mind Stills Ends Dream Accepting Dignity

Author:André Brink

“That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.”

Ends Dignity Liberation Uncomfortable Shocking

Author:Ricky Gervais

“In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves”

Way Ends Self Loses Lines Liberty Gone Strange Dignity Bones Privacy

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.”

Way Want Littles Doe Ends Character Helping Body Life Is Choices Fall Loses Destiny Broken Dignity Edges Painful Bones Odds Cliffs Landing Complete Freedom

Author:Etgar Keret

“Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.”

Men Humans Mean Ends Use Purpose Human Beings Crime Diversity Respect Ethics Dignity Absolutes Mere Every Man Self Respect

Author:Immanuel Kant

“I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.”

People Humans Ends Happens Together Winning Lines Race Comfort Lessons Offers Dignity Aging Weather Bother Human Race Parts Of Life Indignity

Author:Diane Lane

“Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the values of manhood and the military honor...Fight them because with their defeat you will be at the last entrance of the conquest of all conquests. The war will end with...dignity, glory, and triumph for your people, army, and nation.”

“The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life who will proclaim, celebrate, and serve the Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. I renew the appeal I made ... for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.”

Humans Made Ends Done Evil Christ Situation Cases Taken Dignity Celebrate Recognition Appeals Human Life Followers Unnecessary Penalties Consensus Death Penalty Pro Life

Author:Pope John Paul II

“The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once and for all. We have to proclaim that every human being is equal, in dignity, in freedom -and, as the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, we have to live in a spirit of brotherhood.”

“If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of liberty will acquire a dignity and lustre, which it has never yet enjoyed, and an example will be set, which can not but have the most favorable influence on the rights of Mankind.”

Source: The debates in the several state conventions on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as recommended by the general convention at Philadelphia in 1787: Together with the Journal of the Federal convention, Luther Martin's letter, Yates's minutes, Congressional opinions, Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of '98-'99, and other illustrations of the Constitution

“Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.”

Mean Ends Desire Values Dignity

Author:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.”

Ends Done Age Earth Race Darkness Rivers Dignity Spread Broads Decline Tranquil Good Service

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.”

World Humans Ends Today Nations Rights Security Wall Dignity Crisis Human Rights Humanitarian National Security Calamity Nigeria Independence

Author:Kofi Annan

“There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.”

Thinking Humans Art Ends Country Artist Justice Simple Concern Dignity Formulas Human Dignity

Author:Adrienne Rich

“When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your heart. For the world has a way to dismantle your cause, to exploit what you lack and expose all your flaws. But when every layer of your being is gone, and it seems there's no point anymore to go on; just remember one thing, at the end of the day, when you have self-respect they can't take that away.”

World Way Heart Ends Self Seems Remember Causes Gone One Thing Tears Goes On Dignity Dear Self Respect The End Of The Day Flaws Layers Bent Exploits No Point Grind Stay True

Author:Wes Fesler

“On that day, we couldn't reach the conclusion whose hero is the strongest. And today when we are 41 years old, we can protect neither the Earth nor the women we love. We are now just the anti-heroic men, struggling with everyday life. Those boys wo wanted to become heroes... where did they all go? Whose heroes can we become at the end?”

Men Years Ends Today Wanted Earth Boys Struggle Hero Protect Dignity Everyday Conclusion Strongest Heroic Everyday Life

Author:Kim Do-Jin

“When boasting ends, there dignity begins.”

Ends Dignity Boast

Author:Owen D. Young