Disgraceful Quotes

• It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

  Douglas Hyde

  Way, Language, Shame

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• If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Evil, Suffering

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• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

  Karen Armstrong

  Men, Dying, Islam

  "Bill Moyers Interviews Karen Armstrong". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 1, 2002.

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• The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.

  Terence Fisher

  Ideas, Choices, Important

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• To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

  Plato

  Suffering, Injustice

  Plato (2012). “Gorgias and Timaeus”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

  Plato

  Equality, Justice, Suffering

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• Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

  George Orwell

  Autobiography, Trusted

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  War, Pages, Cold

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• A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

  Juvenal

  Children, Son, Years

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• As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

  George Mason

  Southern, Weakness, Unions

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution", vol. 3, edited by Jonathan Elliot, 1974.

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• You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Cockroaches, Shameless

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• A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Men, Giving

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Insincerity

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.72

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• It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Ignorance, Ignorant

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• We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Asylum Seekers, Custody, Asylums

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Humility, Loss, Pride

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• Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

  Plutarch

  Lying, Men, Vices

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• Our dear Imam said that the occupying regime [in Israel] must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement. We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine... I have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the Islamic world.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Islamic, Issues, Israel

  "The World Without Zionism". Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the Islamic Student Associations conference at the Interior Ministry in Tehran, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people Ive ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  People, Stories, Opinion

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• Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Passion, Long, Confusion

  Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) (1883). “The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes”

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• It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself.

  James Pike

  Jesus, People, Clubs

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• It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  House, Ancestry, Ancient

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, CXXXIX, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 23-25, 44 B.C..

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• The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.

  Ralph Peters

  Revolt, Shameful

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• Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.

  George Will

  Mean, Gun, Trying

  "Flashback: Stephanopoulos Scolded Critic of Bonior and McDermott". www.newsbusters.org. March 26, 2008.

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• I watched what this man [Cruz] did to Dr. Ben Carson, who I respect, in Iowa, where he said that Ben Carson is out of the race - he has left Iowa and he's out of the race. And I thought it was disgraceful.

  Donald Trump

  Men, Race, Iowa

  Donald Trump during a Republican presidential primary debate at The University of Houston in Houston, Texas, www.washingtonpost.com. February 26, 2016.

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