Personal Dignity Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.”

Langston Hughes

Aging, Recognition, Hypocrisy, Social Critique, Personal Dignity

2. “Every man’s story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.”

Hermann Hesse

Story, Important, Sacred, Human Experience, Existential Value, Personal Dignity

3. “A lot of jobs don’t allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.”

Albert Camus

Job Freedom, Personal Dignity, Work Choice, Labor, Identity, Freedom

4. “The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Personal Dignity, Individual Rights, Self-respect, Freedom, Equality, Humanity

5. “Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.”

Ayn Rand

Independence, Virtue, Self-Worth, Personal Dignity, Character, Self-Made

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