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• It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

  Edward Kennedy

  Years, Smoking, Congress

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• To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Understanding, Use

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Order

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

  Thomas Malthus

  May, Poverty, Individual

  "An Essay on the Principle of Population (Two Volumes in One)".

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• Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor.

  Cesar Chavez

  Years, People, Peaceful

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• Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  War, Opinion, Conflict

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.226

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• The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

  Pliny the Elder

  Knowledge, Science, Selfishness

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• An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

  Thucydides

  Men, Effort, Poverty

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• There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils. Our failure to successfully enforce these laws is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Colombia. I haven't even included the harm to young people. It's absolutely disgraceful to think of picking up a 22-year-old for smoking pot. More disgraceful is the denial of marijuana for medical purposes.

  Milton Friedman

  Marijuana, Thinking, Years

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• Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
  Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
  Let the lover be.

  Rumi

  Love, Life, Spiritual

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 4: "Spring Giddiness", p. 46, 1995.

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• No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever converse with you, so I vowed that I would know you. My name is Edmund Herondale. May I ask your name? They reffered to you only as 'that disgraceful one-warlock show.

  Cassandra Clare

  Names, Four, May

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Safety, Goes On, Poor

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• My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

  Robert Schumann

  Ideas, Giving, Way

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

  Frank O'Hara

  Party, Love You, Excellence

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.449, Univ of California Press

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• Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

  Frank O'Hara

  Party, Rain, Love You

  Frank O'Hara (2014). “Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, City Lights Books

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• Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Marijuana, Jail

  "Friedman & Szasz On Liberty and Drugs". Interview with Randy Paige on "America's Drug Forum", www.druglibrary.org. 1991.

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• The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Men, Muhammad

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• To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Queens, Real, Mean

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• HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Children, Husband, Mean

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• The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

  George Mason

  Slavery, States, Mankind

  George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788.

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• "thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Gratitude, Grateful, Events

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• To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Rude, Support

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

  George Orwell

  Country, Horse, Kings

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Fashion, Fighting, Maturity

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1929.

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• Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Live Life, Men, Self

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