Dishonorable Quotes - Page 2

• I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

  Barney Frank

  Running, Gay, Rights

  "In Conversation: Barney Frank". Interview with Jason Zengerle, nymag.com. April 15, 2012.

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• While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

  Thomas Jefferson

  Expression, Law, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Profound, Ridiculous, Left

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.43, Vintage

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• The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord had commanded that he should take plural wives, to add to his glory... Joseph asked her to give him half her love; she was at liberty to keep the other half for her husband.

  William Law

  Husband, Giving, Wife

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• I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

  Tilda Swinton

  Children, Character, Dark

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Would Be, Wanted, Persons

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• Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.

  Ben Lindsey

  Mother, Children, Married

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of the Feudal Lord from one to three days after their marriage, and from this custom the eldest son of the serf was held as the son of the Lord.... Marquette was claimed by the Lord's Spiritual, as well as by the Lord's Temporal. The Church, indeed, was the bulwark of this base feudal claim.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Spiritual, Son, Law

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• How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Liars, Lying, People

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.536, Hamilton Books

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• Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

  Clive Barker

  Regret, Too Late, Done

  Clive Barker (2010). “Galilee”, p.55, HarperCollins UK

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• Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

  Leonard Matlovich

  Lying, Gay, Men

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• Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving Up, Practice, Sublime

  "Jefferson: Political Writings".

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• A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

  Bruce Jay Friedman

  Love, Girlfriend, Justice

  Bruce Jay Friedman (1978). “The Lonely Guy: And, The Slightly Older Guy”, p.144, Grove Press

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• The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, United States, World

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Diary of H. L. Mencken”, p.682, Vintage

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• One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

  Adrian Cronauer

  School, Law, Aggravation

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• I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Insightful, Insane

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• Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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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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• An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, War

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

  Charles Sumner

  Philosophy, War, Political

  Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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• Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

  Terry Pratchett

  Assassins, Certain, Code

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• Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Art, Work, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4081, Library of Alexandria

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• This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow them to. Don't let them! Seek instead the things of God. He will purify you and free you from your slavery to profane and inconsequential things.

  Patrick Madrid

  Christian, Tears, World

  Patrick Madrid (2012). “A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.27, TAN Books

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