Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
Debbie Stabenow

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
George Mason

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Hans Kung

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
Helen Garner

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Steven Biko

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
Archibald MacLeish

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
Lech Walesa

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

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.
Robert Toombs

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Frank Serpico

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
Benazir Bhutto

The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
Ayatollah Khamenei

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
Ruby Dee

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
Frederica Montseny

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
T. E. Lawrence