Disgrace Quotes - Page 11

• Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

  Ben Hogan

  Names, Important, Important Things

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• There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Dishonor

  Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War”, p.388, Macmillan

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• To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

  Laozi

  Country, Kings, Taoism

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• Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could not stand in front of me, I would knock him out.

  Jacob Zuma

  Sex, Growing Up, Nations

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• I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history. At least that's what I thought. Now I know: all pain is the same. Only the details are different.

  Kevin Powers

  Pain, Judging, Feelings

  Kevin Powers (2012). “The Yellow Birds”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

  Max Horkheimer

  Careers, Interesting, Doe

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• Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Athlete, Self

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• The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.

  Muhammad Ali

  Real, War, Fighting

  "The hidden history of Muhammad Ali" by David Zirin, www.isreview.org. January 2004.

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• The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, United States, World

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Diary of H. L. Mencken”, p.682, Vintage

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• The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Numbers, Honor, Dew

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• You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Mean, Men

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.345

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• Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see the profits of our trade snatched from us, to enrich our enemies and persecutors. That unequalled spirit of enterprise . . . an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would be stifled and lost; and poverty and disgrace would overspread a country, which, with wisdom, might make herself the admiration and envy of the world.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Envy, Enemy

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2008). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution”, p.68, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

  Rumi

  Peace, Passion, Eye

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the “disgrace of the young.” She would not miss this place.

  Libba Bray

  Real, Blue, Giving

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• The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Father, Son, Aggravation

  Letter to Madame Louise Colet, December 11, 1852.

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• Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, Order, Hallucinations

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Long, Want

  Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.226, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

  Rex Stout

  Broke, Catastrophe, Being Broke

  Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.87, Bantam

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• Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Real, Yoga

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• Blue Face Disgusting taste Flush it Shush it Cold disgrace

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Blue, Taste, Faces

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Runaway”, p.19, Laurel Leaf

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• He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.

  Craig Ferguson

  Success, Failure, Son

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• If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

  Martin Luther

  Loyalty, Voice, Soldier

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• To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

  Malcolm X

  Criminals, Crime, Crime And Criminals

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• They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Groups, Would Be

  Joseph Campbell (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, New World Library

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• There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

  Henry Ford

  Honest, Failing

  Henry Ford (2007). “My Life and Work”, p.273, Cosimo, Inc.

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