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“Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.”

Ifs May Would Be Dignity Combination Cowboy Offended Kissinger Henry Kissinger Disraeli

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.”

Ifs Has Beens Country Interest Powerful Rich Dignity Vote

Author:Ralph Nader

“The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'”

Ifs Thinking Way Long Enough Water Known Dignity Theology Ritual Way Of Thinking Baptists

Book:The Big Picture: An American Commentary

Source: The Big Picture: An American Commentary

“Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.”

Ifs Looks Please Standing Dignity Knees

Author:Michael Jackson

“There's a right way and a wrong way to do things. If you make a chair, you want to make a nice chair. You want people to admire it. I think doing something well is a form of respect for humanity in general. I have found that all incompetence comes from not paying attention, which comes from people doing something that they don't want to do. And doing what you don't want to do means either you have no choice, or you don't think that the moments of your life are worth fighting for.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Wells Mean Moments Form Humanity Choices Fighting Found Attention Nice Dignity Admire Pay Attention Chairs Right Way Incompetence Wrong Way Worth Fighting For

Author:Hal Hartley

“My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.”

Ifs Long Stills Used Voice Careers Bed Quiet Deserve Dignity Introvert

Author:Beverly Sills

“Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.”

Ifs Humans Persons Human Beings Sin Answers Deserve Dignity Theology Treated Sinner Rebellion Shallow Rebellious Insulting Rebellion Against God

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.”

Ifs Mean Seems Remember Values Simple Greater Grace Blessing Deserve Dignity Favors Smallest Thank You Being Thankful Giver

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Character Feelings One Thing Ready Dignity Lays Secure Tragic Personal Dignity

Book:Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.”

Ifs Firsts Dignity Agriculture Usefulness

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows. If I fail, if I succeed...At least I live as I believe. No matter what they take from me, They can't take away my dignity. Because the greatest love of all is happening to me. I found the greatest love of all inside of me. The greatest love of all is easy to achieve. Learning to LOVE YOURSELf...It is the GREATEST love of all”