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The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.

'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.

Work is at the core of human dignity.

The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.