![Mahatma Gandhi](/images/articles/quotes/Mahatma-Gandhi_studio_1931.jpg)
The essence of non-violence is found in the non-cooperation with all forms of humiliation.
Mahatma Gandhi
![Book cover: Conflict - Human Needs Theory](/images/articles/quotes/needs-978-1-349-21000-8.jpg)
The need for self-esteem “is perhaps the most pervasive of any of the needs in humans”
Paul Sites
from: “Needs as analogues of emotions” in J Burton (ed.) 1990, Conflict: human needs theory,
St. Martin’s Press, New York.
(found in Hilarie Roseman's book "Generating Forgiveness", Dignity Press 2014)
![Pope Franciscus 2015](/images/articles/quotes/Franciscus_in_2015.jpg)
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.
Pope Francis
![Karl Marx](/images/articles/quotes/Karl_Marx_001.jpg)
![Che Guevara](/images/articles/quotes/CheHigh.jpg)
Economic Development is just a means to an end, which is human dignity.
Che Guevara
(as reported in german radio channel SWR 2)
![Mikhail Bakunin self portrait](/images/articles/quotes/Michail_Bakunin_selfportrait.jpg)
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
Mikhail Bakunin
(found at BrainyQuote)
![Esther Duflo](/images/articles/quotes/340px-Esther_Duflo.jpg)
But in fact, people want more than money in particular, one thing which kind of ties everything nicely together is dignity. And well, what does dignity mean? It is a sense that your life is worth living and that other people consider that your life is worth living.
Esther Duflo
2019 Nobel Prize in Economics
(found here)