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En la hauteur ou abaissement des gens ne gist mie es corps selonc le sexe, mais en la perfeccion des meurs et vertus. The dignity or baseness of a person lies not in their body according to the sex, but in the perfection of behaviour and virtues.
Christine de Pisan— 1405 Le livre de la Cite des Dames, bk.1, ch.9.
In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post.
sadao araki— Quoted in "Up Saito!" - Time Magazine - December 25, 1933
Esteemed chairman of the court, today we have to pass a verdict on the defendants Nicolae Ceau?escu and Elena Ceau?escu who have committed the following offenses: Crimes against the people. They carried out acts that are incompatible with human dignity and social thinking; they acted in a despotic and criminal way; they destroyed the people whose leaders they claimed to be. Because of the crimes they committed against the people, I plead, on behalf of the victims of these two tyrants, for the death sentence for the two defendants.
nicolae ceauşescu— Chief prosecutor Dan Voinea at the Ceau?escus' trial (25 December 1989)
The effect of Judaism's vigorous promotion of monotheism, and the dignity that this doctrine conferred on all humankind, as created in God's image, coupled with the discipline, warnth and security offered by the Jewish way of life, cannot be overestimated as a powerful catalyst for the undermining and eventual destruction of Graeco-Roman paganism.
jeffrey cohen— Preface, p.ix
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engaged the industry and wisdom of ancient and modern geometers to such an extent that it would be superfluous to discuss the problem at length. ...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.
Problema, numeros primos a compositis dignoscendi, hosque in factores suos primos resolvendi, ad gravissima ac utilissima totius arithmeticae pertinere, et geometrarum tum veterum tum recentiorum industriam ac sagacitatem occupavisse, tam notum est, ut de hac re copiose loqui superfluum foret. ... [P]raetereaque scientiae dignitas requirere videtur, ut omnia subsidia ad solutionem problematis tam elegantis ac celebris sedulo excolantur.
— Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801): Article 329
The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
alan keyes— Renew America rally in Alabama, April 29, 2000.[14]
The more there is of mind in your solitary employments, the more dignity there is in your character.
james morris— As quoted in Strong, Barbara Nolen (1976). The Morris Academy: Pioneer in Coeducation. Torrington: Morris Bicentennial Committee. pp. 14-15.
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
seán o'casey— Letter to The Daily Telegraph, July 8, 1941; published in The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1910-41 (New York: Macmillan, 1975) p. 890.
— Of P. G. Wodehouse's wartime broadcasts from Berlin.
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
— Quoted in Older & Wiser Edited by G. B. Dianda and B. J. Hofmayer (1995)
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.
booker t. washington— Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.
Daniel Webster— The Dignity and Importance of History (February 23, 1852).
The ideal man bears the accidents of life With dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.
joseph addison— Act V, scene i.
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Ch. XIV (Biographia Literaria (1817))
So I say to you, citizens of the last Arab country, this is a time for courage, for unity, for wisdom, for determination, to face these enemies with the dignity your president has shown, and I believe, God willing, we will prevail and triumph, wa-salam aleikum .
George Galloway— MemriTVSpeech at the University of Damascus, televised on Al-Jazeera TV on November 13, 2005
O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not the strong in me and the constant Eat the bread or drink the wine That tempt my weaker self. Let me rather starve, And let my heart parch with thirst, And let me die and perish, Ere I stretch my hand To a cup you did not fill, Or a bowl you did not bless.
khalil gibran— "Love" (The Forerunner (1920))
God assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman.
— General audience of Wednesday, 24 November, which took place in the Paul VI HallSource: [2] (English)
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.
Margaret Mead— p.7 (Male and female, 1949)
Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.
hyman g. rickover— Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life (1982)
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
george santayana— Ch. 4 (Vol. V, Reason in Science)
As all human rights derive from human dignity, it is important to recognize that human dignity is not a product of positivism but an expression of natural law and human rationality. Although an abstract concept, human dignity has engendered concrete norms of human rights, a practical mode d’emploi strengthened by enforcement mechanisms.
alfred de zayas— Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred Maurice de Zayas [8]
He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book II, line 110.
Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.
john ralston saul— John Ralston Saul, The Doubter's Companion (1994), "Panic"
The object of the discipline enforced by the Court in case of contempt of court is not to vindicate the dignity of the Court or the person of the Judge, but to prevent undue interference with the administration of justice.
— Bowen, L.J., Hellmore v. Smith (2) (1886), L. R. 35 C. D. 455.
Quite apart from the fact that it conflicts with the demands and the content of the word of God, nihilism is a denial of the humanity and of the very identity of the human being. It should never be forgotten that the neglect of being inevitably leads to losing touch with objective truth and therefore with the very ground of human dignity.
— Pope John Paul II in Encyclical Fides et Ratio, Ch. 90 (14 September 1998)
The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time they will be found to improve, and not to be much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.
— Fisher Ames, letter to George Richard Minot (May 27, 1789); reported in Works of Fisher Ames (1854), ed. Seth Ames, vol. 1, p. 45.
Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
hannah more— Hannah More, Florio, Part I.
Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act II, scene 9, line 39.
wars are often the cause of further wars because they fuel deep hatreds, create situations of injustice and trample upon people's dignity and rights. Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile. War is a defeat for humanity. Only in peace and through peace can respect for human dignity and its inalienable rights be guaranteed.
Pope John Paul II— Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, 8 December 1999, Chapter 3
Honor and dignity of man is only in virtue and piety.
— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.78, p.128
