#dignity

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#dignity #frankly #politics #should #thinking

I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#believe #burma #democracy #dignity #i

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ↗

— George Santayana

#controlled #dreadful #geography #indignity #me

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. ↗

— George Santayana

#despise #dignity #himself #his #man

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

— George Santayana

#dignity #dominates #end #exact #exact measure

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#assure #continue #control #desire #dignity

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#begins #dignity #give #god #i

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#again #autonomous #back #born #capacity

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#gender #homosexuality #lesbianism #morality #nature

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#feminism #freedom #justice #self-respect #women