Dishonor Quotes

• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Religion, Spirituality

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• You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Choices, Politics

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “Memoral Addresses and Tributes”

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• He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mistake, Lying, Two

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• One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

  Oswald Spengler

  Honor, Enemy, Doe

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson 1880 (1928). “The decline of the West”

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• Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

  Aeschylus

  Punishment, Feet, Justice

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics

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• Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.

  William Faulkner

  Peace, Paper, Cash

  William Faulkner (1994). “Novels 1942-1954”

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• The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

  Clark Gable

  Song, Men, Odds

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• Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Reality, Choices

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Swans, Honor, Crow

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 12, 2017

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• Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Doe, Ridicule

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• Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.

  Nelson Mandela

  Choices, Honor, Arms

  "The Sacred Warrior" by Nelson Mandela, content.time.com. December 31, 1999.

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• You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Judging, Perfection, Judgment

  Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.200, Routledge

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• Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Light, Honor

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

  Henry Beston

  Men, World, Earth

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

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• We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

  George Crook

  Country, Past, Law

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• Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

  Herman Melville

  Honor, Flogging

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.366, Northwestern University Press

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• The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Light, Congress And The President, Honor

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

  Pete Seeger

  Believe, May, Courses

  Pete Seeger, Rob Rosenthal, Sam Rosenthal (2015). “Pete Seeger in His Own Words”, p.107, Routledge

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• Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Jesus, Pain, Wish To Die

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• It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

  Jim Bakker

  Honor, Lines, Cameras

  "Larry King Weekend", www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.

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• Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

  Thornton Wilder

  Integrity, Liars, Two

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 3.

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• Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

  David Henry Hwang

  Honor

  David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.17, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

  Bobby Sands

  Lying, Criminals, Crime

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• I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone.

  Patrick Cleburne

  War, Believe, Home

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• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

  William Blake

  Despair, Talent, Shame

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.491, Pearson Education

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