Honorable Quotes - Page 18

• All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were.

  George Saunders

  Giving, Political, Might

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

  Sophocles

  Father, Son, Ornaments

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• I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of arent aware of manners and other ways of life and common decency.

  Derek Blasberg

  People, Moral, Common

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• Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, Teaching

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Men, Odds

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Organization

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Thanks to men
  Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Thankfulness

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “King John”, p.498

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• Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Community, India, Finals

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• My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Nations

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• With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.

  George Washington

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Heart

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.115

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• Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

  James C. Scott

  Careers, Agriculture, Population

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• The greatest gift of God to us today is right guidance. The enemy has money that he can throw at problems but the problems never get solved because we're violating the good guidance and warning that God sent to us through the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Enemy, Today, Problem

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, 'justice lays down with you when you lay down, justice gets up with you when you get up.' The requirement of this universally applicable law is that you must do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. When you wake up, you wake up to that law that whatever you put out is going to come back.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Justice, Wake Up, Done

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Cells, Space, Flying

  "Inner Space". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.

  John Bright

  Party, Political, Gentleman

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• I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Sorry, Sunday

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters”

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• Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Titles, United States

  "Secret Service Agent Barred From Flight". abcnews.go.com. January 7, 2006.

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• I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

  Ashin Wirathu

  Political, Lama, Brokers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively.

  Noam Chomsky

  Community, Important, Matter

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

  Noam Chomsky

  Intellectual, Said, Term

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Enemy, Victory

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.216, Knickerbocker Classics

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• The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and mercy for those who needed help, etc. I wouldn't personally endorse everything they said, any more than I would for critics of power and its crimes today. But rather generally I think they played an honorable role - and suffered accordingly.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Thinking, Justice

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.

  Socrates

  Men, Should Have, Honorable Man

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• I'm 40 years old now and I have my friends from five years old up to 40, over 20 lifelong friends I have. And you can't keep that. You can't have that kind of friendship with people for 40 years from childhood friends if you're not an honorable person and if you're not a respectful person. And that's exactly what I am.

  Tony Vlachos

  Years, People, Childhood

  "Interview: Tony Vlachos talks ‘Survivor: Cagayan’". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. May 27, 2014.

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• The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Dying, Bed

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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