#dignity

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#dignity #man #right

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. ↗

— Jose Marti

#deeds #dignity #evaporate #famous #few

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#attend #busy #difficult #dignity #futile

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. ↗

— Rollo May

#based #being #beings #dignity #emotion

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

— Herman Melville

#leisure #talk #work

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#comes #compromises #dignity #human #human dignity

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. ↗

— Ovid

#cannot #dignity #love #same #share

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity. ↗

— Carl Paladino

#dignity #down #get #i #i see

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#brother #brother and sister #dignity #doing #doing good

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment. ↗

— Dorothy Stang

#any #aspire #battle #better #better life