Dishonor Quotes - Page 5

• Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

  Euripides

  Death, Suicide, Trouble

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Halt, Followership

  "Orator Ad M. Brutum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC.

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• These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right from wrong, good from bad, holy from profane, honor from dishonor.

  Janet Morris

  Love, War, Honor

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• It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Nice, Scare

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.441, Princeton University Press

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• Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.

  Petrarch

  Writing, Hands, Mind

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• The natural world is a gift that we have the obligation to treasure and use carefully. It is our moral responsibility to protect it from damage, and to pass it on to our heirs in good condition. To do less is to dishonor the Giver and the gift.

  Frederick Victor Grey Wymark

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Use

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• Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Hard Work, Hard

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• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Religion, Atheism

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, March 04, 1831.

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• If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

  Isaac Newton

  Revenge, Passion, Silence

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• In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Days Gone By, Dying, Earth

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

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Disgrace

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

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• If you're going to do something, do it with gusto. Don't do anything half-heartedly. That dishonors the doing and the doer. So go for it. Hold nothing back. In life. Or love. Or anything at all!

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Doers, Gusto, Half

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 27, 2016

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• We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Knowing, Slander, Eagerness

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.572, Discovery House

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• There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.

  Charley Reese

  Liars, Oatmeal, Promise

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• Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.

  Dylan Thomas

  Country, House, Prophet

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• He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

  Mark Twain

  Way, Taught, Sabbath

  George Washington Cable, Mark Twain, Arlin Turner (1960). “Mark Twain [and] G. W. Cable: the record of a literary friendship”

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• Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

  Tad Williams

  Honor, Occasional, Disguise

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.235, Penguin

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• Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Real, Evil, Speak

  Jonathan Edwards (2007). “Life and Diary of David Brainerd”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

  Christopher Columbus

  Brother, Taken, Hair

  Letter to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 07, 1503.

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• Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Father, Lying, Honor

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• We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.

  Charles Peguy

  Loss, People, Justice

  "Men and Saints". Book by Charles Péguy, transl. by Anne and Julian Green, p. 11, 1944.

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• We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Honor, Promise

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• I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bullying, Strong, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

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• It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

  Samuel Adams

  Liberty, Minorities, Causes

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

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