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# Dignity does not depend on productivity, prestige,...
> Dignity does not depend on productivity, prestige, health, wealth, or institutional approval. Dignity is the moral condition that governs how power should meet a person before any price is calculated. A civilization reveals itself in what it refuses to make people earn.
**Source:** [[livestreams/The Human Being as Opportunity — Institutions, Human Capital, and Reclaiming the Self - Workbook|The Human Being as Opportunity — Institutions, Human Capital, and Reclaiming the Self]]
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“Dignity does not depend on productivity, prestige, health, wealth, or institutional approval. Dignity is the moral condition that governs how power should meet a person before any price is calculated. A civilization reveals itself in what it refuses to make people earn.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-dignity-depend-productivity-refuses-people-earn
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