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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Thinking, Prime, Chips

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.

  Quentin Crisp

  Queens, Princess, Heart

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• The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever brutalized, and yet he apologizes to his family for his long absence. That was such a profoundly moving moment capturing the triumph of dignity over the disgraceful behavior of those involved in the slave trade.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Moving, Taken, Home

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I think the way NOW characterized Smith Barney is disgraceful. I am appalled that an organization like that would not have reserved judgment (until) making their own investigation.

  Jamie Dimon

  Thinking, Organization, Way

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• When you have your staff taking the Fifth Amendment, taking the Fifth so they're not prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the Fifth, I think it's disgraceful. And believe me, this country thinks it's - really thinks it's disgraceful, also.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Believe, Men

  "Here’s Why Hillary Clinton Emails Didn’t Get Much Attention Last Night" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 27, 2016.

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• For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.

  Donald Trump

  Religious, Leader, Persons

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

  Antonio Guterres

  Suffering, Tragedy, Humanitarian

  "Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis". "Moyers & Company" with Phil Donahue, billmoyers.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Christian, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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