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“I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my work played in it—I could embrace it with some degree of joy, an element conspicuously missing from my life.”

Ifs Giving Writing Joy Values Missing Degrees Elements Dignity Embrace If I Could

Author:Philip Levine

“If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.”

People Ifs Turns Enemy Respect Dignity Treats Disguise Respecting Others Friendliness Social Interaction Moguls

Author:Ted Turner

“There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.”

Ifs Men Giving Purpose Universe Acting Elements Dignity Universal Function Supreme Height Distinction Horizon Ordeals Acting As If

Book:Life and destiny

Source: Life and destiny

“None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.”

Ifs Knows Littles Hard Moments Life Is Fit Circumstances Healthy Elements Dignity Ill Over It Terminally Ill

Author:Ian Mcewan

“All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Quality Pride Proud Dignity Army Proportion Acquire Collectivity

Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.”

Ifs May Left Principles Subjects Dignity Settling Amusement Awakened Animated

Author:Thornton T. Munger

“If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?”

Ifs Humans Artist Speak Rights Dignity Human Dignity

Author:Ai Weiwei

“There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and oppressive. All struggles happen between these two parties. If you are in the first group, your greatest reward will be dignity and victory!”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Two Country Happens Party Struggle Wise Groups Victory Dignity Democrat Rewards Libertarian Ignorant Fascists Reactionaries Wise People

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.”

Ifs Evil Left Strange Dignity Connected Architecture Tendencies Folly Stations Portions Smallest Ornaments Present Day Railroads Decoration

Author:John Ruskin

“The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.”

“Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!”

Ifs Should Mean Littles Soul Care Causes Loses Risk Dignity Selfish Devotion Saving Reform Your Soul Hunts Good Causes Shabby

Book:The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Source: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

“Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.”

Ifs Art Character Shows Sound Emotion Greatness Music Is Dignity Absolutes Very Good Noble Tenderness Nobility Pompous Popular Music

Author:Arthur Rubinstein

“One of the most wonderful things you can do in this world is forgive others. We are designed to have flaws and make mistakes. If we emulate God, we are led to forgive. Giving someone the ability to recapture their dignity can transform lives. Do it often.”

Ifs World Giving Can Do Ability Mistake Wonderful This World Dignity Forgiving Making Mistakes Flaws Wonderful Things Emulate

Author:John Fairclough

“If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.”

Ifs Want Dignity

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.”

Ifs Truth Dignity Telling The Truth

Author:Pat Cooper

“The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope.”

Ifs Needs Giving Humans Self Interest Human Beings Animal Our Lives Sacrifice Divine Willing Dignity Mere Proof Sparks Selfless Self Interest Selfless Love

Book:Seize the Night: A Novel

Source: Seize the Night: A Novel

“We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.”

Source: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches

“If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.”

Ifs Knows Men World Humans America Nations Forget Progress Promise Creatures Ideals Dignity Worthy Premises Free Man Human Progress

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

“We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have to trick themselves out to gain attention, it is a sure sign that they are unworthy of it. If we want to make ourselves worthy, we can do so only by the innate eminence conferred by virtue. We hold great people in esteem more for the qualities of their soul than for the qualities of their fortune.”

“If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.”

Ifs Way Looks Art Pain Past Artist Example Morality Dignity Notion Contemporary Artistic Torture Arrogant Offensive Immoral Great Art Great Artist

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The Government honoring our treaties and sovereignty is first and foremost. These issues are still the top priority which [Barak] Obama, if elected, has promised us. For us, we should implement the most impor-tant programs right now: they are programs to teach the children a positive sense of dignity, self-worth, and the importance of sustaining their culture, history, language and honor as a people.”

“If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.”

“If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.”

Ifs Way Choices Opportunity Individual Energy Water Greater Dignity Access Goods Housing Goods And Services

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

Ifs Persons Doe Understanding Leadership Human Nature Stupid Fool Dignity Regard Memories Dreams Reflections Understanding Others Understanding Him

Book:Mysterium coniunctionis

Source: Mysterium coniunctionis

“The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.”

Ifs Want Moments Arms Dignity Get Up Humiliated

Author:Desmond Tutu

“If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"”

Ifs Men Might Life Is Values Asks Development Survival Highest Tradition Dignity Western Supreme Things In Life

Author:Erich Fromm

“If I do, I say so. That's the only way out of that. If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words "I don't know." I mean, there are certain basic principles, like the dignity of the individual and the individual's responsibility, and certain basic economic principles, like how when something costs less, more of it will be consumed... There are certain things that I feel pretty confident about.”

“If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.”

Ifs Men Humans Stills Problem Black Human Beings Dignity Separation Recognition Integration Segregation

Author:Malcolm X

“I might say that the debate between atheists and Christians is rather stale to me, because the Christians say, "You must be a Christian, or you must be a religious man, in order to be good," and the atheists will say, "It's beneath the dignity of a free man to bow his knee to a god, as if he were a sinner," or something like that.”

Ifs Men Might Christian Order Religious Dignity Atheist Be Good Debate Knees Sinner Bows Free Man Stale

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.”

“My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.”

People Ifs Thinking Children States Humanity Fighting Position Projects Racism Red Standing Dignity Blue Species Uplifting Sexism Homophobia Underdog Anti Racism Centerpieces

Author:Van Jones

“I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. I think that applies to young people in Saudi Arabia as much as to young people in Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, or Libya, or Syria. If I were in Saudi Arabia, I would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Humans Country Would Be Young Justice Appreciate Dignity Longing Driven Awakening Aspiration Syria Egypt Immune Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Libya Yemen Tunisia

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.”

Ifs Thinking Should Dignity Personal Dignity

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Different Soul Done Purpose Careers Honesty Type Dignity Entertainment Complexity Exploring Human Soul Frivolous

Author:Antonio Banderas

“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”

“Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.”

Ifs Men Country Age Fighting Glory Dignity Flags Abstraction Marine Marine Corps Ordeals Marine Life

Author:William Manchester

“If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.”

“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.”

People Ifs Knows Want Hard Values Hard Work Like You Dignity Treats Agree Raised What You Want Barack Dignity And Respect

Author:Michelle Obama

“If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.”

Ifs Stills Can Do Fool Dignity Down And Pants You Can Do It

Author:William Shatner

“My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.”

Ifs Mother Dignity Command Captains Spoons Noisy Steamboats

Book:The World of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.”

Ifs Giving May States Enough Certain Dignity Give Me Get Up Hats Someday Feminine Funeral Attending

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

“Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.”

Ifs Years Long Matter Together Duty Battle Dignity Mere Ugly Dull Appetite Years Together

Book:House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence

Source: House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence

“I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?”

Ifs Knows Needs Littles Hate Passion Grows Felt Huge Dignity Weak Pity Obsession Desperate Far Away Disgusting Monstrous Love And Hate

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.”

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!”

Ifs Mean Would Be Grows Change Growing Up Growing Tree Dignity Climbs Change For The Better

Author:James M. Barrie

“Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.”

“If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.”

Source: I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr

“There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.”

Ifs Trying Persons Law Order Differences Moral Crime Deserve Dignity Crosses Tables Criminals Significant Violent Commit Borders Entry Migrants Violent Crimes

Author:Madeleine Albright

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