Honorable Quotes - Page 10

• If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home.

  Lady Gaga

  Home, Fighting, Prejudice

  "Senate to vote on taking up 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal" by Ted Barrett and Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.

  David Petersen

  Meaningful, Essentials, Hunters

  David Petersen (2014). “Racks: A Natural History of Antlers and the Animals That Wear Them”, p.114, Booktango

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• Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest within the state than this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury and money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises. Subsequently they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as possible.

  Maria Theresa

  Men, Race, Honorable Man

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• Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Employment, Affair

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

  Thomas Fuller

  Humble, Humility, Pride

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• So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal
  Persona is unbombable? Trust me son,
  I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to
  allow you that the chronicle has just begun.

  Rakim

  Drama, Son, Hip Hop

  Song: The Saga Begins, Album: The 18th Letter

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• An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

  John Paul Jones

  War, Blood, Wish

  Robert Morris Letter Book, Rosenbach Collection No. 33, 1943.

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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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• There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Names, People, Culture

  "1998 Audio: Obama Admitted Welfare Recipients Potentially a “Majority Coalition”". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.

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• There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Political

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.29, South End Press

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• Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

  Jasper Fforde

  Excuse, Used, Should

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• In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side

  Gina Gershon

  Sides, Sleazy, Profession

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• Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

  Ansel Elgort

  Beautiful, Love You, Grateful

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• The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit children who anxiously desire to come to dwell here in this mortal state. All the honor and glory that can come to men and women is but a dim thing whose luster shall fade in comparison to the high honor, the eternal glory, the ever-enduring happiness that shall come to the woman who fulfils the first great duty and mission that devolves upon her to become the mother of the sons and daughters of God

  Melvin J. Ballard

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

  Eric Clapton

  Responsibility, Guy, Gone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.

  Noam Chomsky

  May, Easy, Courses

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.67, City Lights Books

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• My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

  Winfield Scott

  Country, Integrity, Government

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• I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.

  Nathan Hale

  Expectations, Wish, Rewards

  "Life of Captain Nathan Hale". Book by Isaac William Stuart, p. 94, 1856.

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• You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

  George Eliot

  Love You, Pride, Thinking

  George Eliot “Middlemarch, Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

  David Klass

  Lonely, Fighting, Goes On

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.216, Macmillan

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• Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Frustration, Thinking

  "Palm Sunday". Kurt Vonnegut's sermon at St. Clement's Church in New York City (1980), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You", 1980.

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• A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Mother, Sorrow

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Honor, Assuming

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• That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Silly, Olives, Anna

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• Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Understanding, Muhammad

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