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“It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.”

Humans Happens Humanity Human Beings Cutting Strange Dignity Contact Tension Touched Touching Tenderness Wholeness Misunderstanding Strange Things Cutting Off

Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

“For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.”

Humans Human Beings Ability Essentials Dignity Crucial Being Free

Author:Izzeldin Abuelaish

“One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.”

Knows Humans Human Beings Courage Know How Dignity

Author:Rudolf Rocker

“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

“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

“One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being.”

Ifs Should Believe Humans Happens Jobs Work Human Beings Identity Pride Equal Labor Dignity Tasks

Book:Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

“nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.”

Ifs Feels Humans Important Suffering Wealth Human Beings Compassion Careers Empathy Dignity

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.”

Humans Would Be Human Beings Company Roles Economy Creative Capacity Concerned Dignity Creator Productivity Circles Metamorphosis Market Economy Full Circle

Author:Joseph Beuys

“Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."”

People Thinking Want Humans May Able Justice Human Beings Situation Dignity Defeat Occasions Humiliated I May Not Be

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.”

Giving Humans Two Important Culture Sex Differences Human Beings Conditions Built Dignity Variety Stature

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“Dogs are intelligent beings; they are not human beings. The life of a dog - there's no equivalency with the life of a person, and if you are putting a dog in the line of danger to save human life, and they can do the job reasonably well, I mean, seriously, what about dignity and self-respect? I feel like going out to dinner, I think I will have my cocker spaniel host the show tonight.”

“The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.”

Men Humans Government Individual Given Natural Human Beings Rights Dignity Agree Conservative Pursue Founders Natural Rights Live Free

Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto