Quote by Denis Diderot
Every man has his dignity. Im willing to forget mine, but at my ow

Every man has his dignity. Im willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. – Denis Diderot

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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. – Denis Diderot

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There are things I cant force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. – Denis Diderot

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Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. – Robert Maynard

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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. – James Thurber

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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. – Elbert Hubbard

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

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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. – J. K. Rowling

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