Individual Worth Quotes

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

I revere the history of my party, most particularly the value it has always placed on the worth and dignity of the individual, and I will continue to work across the country for Republican candidates.

Everybody is worth everything.

Each man is worth more than the whole of humanity, nor will it do to sacrifice each to all save in so far as all sacrifice themselves to each.

In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.

Everybody's life matters.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

The workman still is greater than his work.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

As far as I'm concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they're people who don't feel important.

My politics, and my religion as well, are based entirely on the loveliness and value of ordinary human lives. The creaky apparatus called politics shelters or oppresses or threatens these lives, and is therefore of interest.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.