Quotes: "When boasting ends, there dignity begins." - Young; "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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There is no life on this planet that is without pain or suffering. Pain and suffering are the the forges that shape our character and put the steel in our backbones. Dignity is the respect we give ourselves. No one can give you dignity but ...
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Dignity is a term used in moral, ethical, and political discussions to signify that a being has an innate right to respect and ethical treatment. It is an extension of Enlightenment-era beliefs that ...
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In this context, the Commission presented in 1996 a Green Paper on the protection of minors and human dignity in audiovisual and information services, with the aim of initiating a harmonisation of means to combat illegal material (child pornography) and to restrict the access of minors to programmes or services for adults,
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Likewise also the Enlightenment: It has brought forth a science that can initiate human life in the laboratory but is without embarrassment incompetent to say what it means either by life or by the distinctively human, and, therefore, whose teachings about man cannot even begin to support its own premise that...
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When `human' and `dignity' are used in conjunction they form the expression `human dignity', which means the status of human beings entitling them to respect, a status which is first and to be taken for granted.
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Human Dignity and the Human Heart from Human Rights and Human Dignity ... "only the end justifies the means"; and "decisions ought to be made situationally, not prescriptively.'' As in existential theology, there is powerful resistance to the binding, absolute force of scriptural principle.
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Ophelia at Butterflies and Wheels is asking what 'human dignity' means. She says she considers it meaningless. Because I don't agree, I want to have a go at saying what the phrase means. Ophelia also says that she dislikes it:... ... I will merely say that, while 'human dignity' may be open to sentimental usage, I don't think...
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Recognizing human rights is one of the most important ways to protect the dignity inherent in every human being. Human rights are protected by establishing a common standard of how a human being should be treated.
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Outrages against human dignity: Everyone, I am interested in what you think the term, 'Outrages against human dignity' means and some examples. ... Re: Outrages against human dignity ... If we decide to allow an idiot to violate those tenets with the words, "I don't know what that means. It is subject to interpretation." Then...
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