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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Friendship Enemy Reach Us

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Santayana

Man Courage Religion Grace

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

George Santayana

Imagination Reality End Measure

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

George Santayana

Man True Only Himself

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Time Revolution Manners Morals

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Herman Melville

Democracy Hell Purple Devils

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Herman Melville

Work Talk Leisure

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

Beauty Good Woman Fat

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

Hillary Clinton

Responsibility Humanity Violence Come

We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.

Hillary Clinton

Life Work Hard Work Good

When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, 'I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.' He told me, 'We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.'

Me You Great Win

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

Alone Man Freedom Soul

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Men Memory Prison Nothing

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

Children Way Country Pakistan

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Genuine Others Only Indifference

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Michael Jackson

I Am Black Proud Pride

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

Father Respect Community Job

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

Jackie Robinson

Black Believe Live Hungry

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Man Me Forget My Own

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Value Desire Must Our

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

Work You Eating Live

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

Truth People Politicians Tell

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Baltasar Gracian

Office Who Show Those

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

W. Somerset Maugham

Work Independence Wealth Enough

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Love Cannot Same Share

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Gentleman Wrong Apology He

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