“Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.” MeanProblemSeemsSolutionsDignityElegantArithmeticIdahoPrime Numbers Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.” WayFeelsSometimesProblemCoursesCompanyLonelinessArmsEasierSolitudeDignityBlueSolve Book:Bluets Source: Bluets
“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?” KnowsProblemDecisionDemocracyKingsCitizensProtectOrdinaryDignityFunctionDemocraticAppearanceBeing TrueAdministrationExecutivesRitualMonarchyMonarchsOrdinary CitizensConstitutional MonarchySigning Off Book:First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
“Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.” HumansLongMadeProblemLyingEvilUnderstandingRacePrinciplesTaughtEthicsDignityWeightEmbraceInternationalPhysicsSecureAgreementCooperationAtomsMetalsDomainSanctionsTranquilTaught UsHuman DignityArmamentDisintegrationInternational Cooperation Author:Bernard Baruch
“It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.” PeopleThinkingProblemWalksSacrificeEconomicWillingOughtDignityPoliceShamePolice BrutalityBrutalityDisparity Author:Al Sharpton
“When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.” PeopleGivingTryingProblemLevelsCenturyUniqueDignityClownPersona Author:Kevin Costner
“The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.” PeopleStatesProblemJobsSocialUnitedUnited StatesFindingsDignityDecentSocial Status Author:Kenneth Rogoff
“I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.” TryingHas BeensHardProblemCoursesLonelinessEasierSolitudeFindingsDignity Book:Bluets Source: Bluets
“Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.” WayI CanProblemLife IsFiguresDignitySeriesSolve Author:Aimee Mann
“The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.” ProblemOrderOpportunityIndividualSocialDignityAgingWelfarePersonal LifeRethinking Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.” PeopleThinkingLooksPlayProblemCitiesOrdinaryDignityAbsolutesNotionFatsFallenLos AngelesTomsScornCruiseBrando Author:Matthew Specktor
“For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty was to escape and that I needed to get back to my family and to my children no matter what. And that I could not accept to just see them as an authority, that I had to always keep in mind that I had to rebel and to keep my distance and to protect my soul because the core of the problem is dignity.” MindChildrenImportantSoulMatterProblemForgetAcceptingDutyNeededProtectAuthorityDignityMy FamilyNo Matter WhatImportant ThingsDistanceCoreMy SoulMy ChildrenGet BackRebel Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.” PeopleGivingSelfStatesHelpingProblemSpeakTeachStruggleSelf HelpPrideDrawsDignityVariousBoxingIntroducingProstitutionDope Author:Muhammad Ali
“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.” IfsMenHumansStillsProblemBlackHuman BeingsDignitySeparationRecognitionIntegrationSegregation Author:Malcolm X
“The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they're deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.” PeopleWorldFeelsStatesProblemTodaySocialJusticeUnitedCommonUnited StatesSolutionsDignitySocial JusticePreparedEngagedQuestsDeprived Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“I think as we look at this problem of ISIS, it's more than just an army. It's also a fight about ideas. And we have got to dry up their recruiting. We have got to dry up their fundraising. The way we intend to do it is to humiliate them, to divorce them from any nation giving them protection, and humiliating their message of hatred, of violence. Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. They have - they cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dignity.” ThinkingGivingChildrenProblemFightingReligiousViolenceDignityHatredArmyDivorceProtectionHumiliatingHumiliate Author:James Mattis
“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” ThinkingInspirationalProblemMotivationalSuccessBeliefInspiringLevelsBusinessDignitySignificantSolved ProblemsSame Thinking Author:Albert Einstein
“There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.” HumansLittlesPersonsShowsProblemToo MuchDignityDimensionsPornography Author:Pope John Paul II
“With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare gave Othello such dignity - he came not from - as he said - not from hate but from honor, from a sense of his own human dignity. And to me, to my mind, there could be no greater character played.” MenMindHumansSaidCharacterProblemHateBlackWhiteActingRolesGreaterHonorDignityHuman Dignity Author:Paul Robeson
“From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.” PeopleInspirationalNeedsProblemTogetherSuccessStrengthDespairDignityDepthSolveWorking TogetherNew YearOrganizePersonal DignityDignity Of WorkDignity And Strength Author:Cesar Chavez
“Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of leaders to tackle the causes and to settle for peace, and international determination to push for peace and then to consolidate it. Consolidating peace means helping societies emerging from war to reintegrate refugees in safety and dignity, to rebuild their institutions - including in the field of justice and human rights - and to resume their economic development.” HumansMayMeanTwoWarHelpingProblemSeemsPoliticalCausesJusticeLeaderRightsEconomicFieldsDevelopmentSolutionsDeterminationDignitySafetyInstitutionsIncludingInternationalHuman RightsSettlingRefugeeEmergingResumesEconomic DevelopmentPrerequisitesProblems And SolutionsSolution To A ProblemPolitical Will Author:Sadako Ogata
“In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.” PeopleHumansWellsMayProblemChristianAmericaSpiritEvilLove IsRaceStruggleViolenceStageApproachWeaponsSolutionsEthicsDignityMethodAvailableNonviolenceOppressedRemindersResortsSegregationHuman DignityAlabamaSynthesisMontgomeryChristian EthicsStruggle For FreedomRacial Segregation Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.” PeopleWorldHumansProblemGovernmentAgeActorsChallengesResponsibilityTechnologyProgressInspireConflictDiseaseDignityCrisisEnvironmentalHungerBillionsDevelopingCrucialDeniedMinimumProvokingRequirementsCitizenshipDegradationPillarsHuman DignityInterdependenceHolding BackEnvironmental DegradationScience TechnologyShared Responsibility Author:Kofi Annan
“By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every individual and every society to its full dignity, in which problems are absent and perfect health, happiness, and a rapid pace of progress are the natural features of life.” ProblemIndividualNaturalSimplePerfectLevelsMeditationProgressDignityRaisesFeaturesPaceRapidsAbsentProceduresTranscendentalTranscendental MeditationLevels Of Life Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to mourn. In Men We Reaped, Jesmyn unburies her dead, that they may live again. And through this emotional excavation, she forces us to see the problems of place and race that led these men to their early graves. Full of beauty, love, and dignity, Men We Reaped is a haunting and essential read.” MenWayMayProblemHomeLeftForceRaceEmotionalEssentialsDignityPainfulGravesCoastHauntingMournBeauty Love Author:Natasha Trethewey
“Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.” MenProblemHomeMightResponsibilityGenerationsLandMen And WomenResourcesRiversDignityInspiredConvictionWildernessContinentsDevotedVigorBettermentPrairieTamed Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.” WayLooksI CanSelfProblemBigsStuffFeetMinutesSelf EsteemDignityDecidedEarsDressesI RealizedWho I AmEsteemTeenagerGradesBe ConfidentI Am Who I Am Author:Clay Aiken
“Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.” ThinkingSelfProblemEvilSinFailingInfluenceProveBehaviorNegativeDignityCoreAnalysisShallowDemonicNegative ThinkingAntisocialAntisocial Behavior Author:Robert H. Schuller