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  • Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.

    Fate   Law   Punishment  
  • We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

    Lying   Criminals   Crime  
  • Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and undisturbedly in the face of afflictions from one's neighbor. Meekness is a cliff rising from the sea of irritability, against which all the that waves that strive against it break, but which is itself never broken.

  • The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

    Athlete   Men   Games  
  • Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

    Ignorance   Pride   Men  
    Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.37, Penguin
  • I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

    Order   India   Arms  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.53, Courier Corporation
  • Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and made it more likely that others would join the ranks of her fallen comrades. Her prison sentence may end in a few months' [time], but her dishonor will last forever.

    Iraq   Forever   May  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

  • He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

    John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.526, Modern Library
  • The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages; and it is doubtless our paramount duty, in every state of society, to alleviate the pressure of the purely evil part of this distribution, as much as possible, and, by all the means we can devise, secure the lower links in the chain of society from dragging in dishonor and wretchedness.

    Mean   Differences   Evil  
  • Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

    Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.57, Simon and Schuster
  • Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

    Men   Doe   Dishonor  
  • Every soul... comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor, is determined by its' previous merits or demerits. Its' work in this world determines its' place in the world which is to follow this.

    Karma   Soul   Honor  
  • 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!

    Doers   Gusto   Half  
    FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 27, 2016
  • He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

    Way   Taught   Dishonor  
    George Washington Cable, Mark Twain, Arlin Turner (1960). “Mark Twain [and] G. W. Cable: the record of a literary friendship”
  • An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

    "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation With Civil Rights Attorney BBenjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.
  • There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

    Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
  • It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

    Swans   Honor   Crow  
    FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 12, 2017
  • Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

    Men   Thinking   Waiting  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 242, 1895.
  • We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

    Country   Past   Law  
  • Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.

    Charles Phillips, John Philpot Curran, Henry Grattan, Robert Emmet (1834). “Irish Eloquence: The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators: Phillips, Curran and Grattan, to which is Added the Powerful Appeal of Robert Emmett, at the Close of His Trial for High Treason”, p.369
  • It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

    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”
  • Easy believeism dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone!

    Blood   Pay   Easy  
  • The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

    Worry   Way   Reputation  
  • It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

    Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.47, University of Chicago Press
  • If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

    Men   Halt   Dishonor  
    "Orator Ad M. Brutum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC.
  • We should strengthen the faith of our people in their own future, the faith of every Canadian in Canada, and of every province in its sister province. This faith wrongs no one; burdens no one; menaces no one; dishonors no one; and, as it was said of old, faith moves mountains, so I venture reverently to express my own belief that if the difficulties of our future as a dominion were as high as the peaks of the Alps or Andes, yet that the pure patriotic faith of a united people would be all sufficient to overcome and ultimately to triumph over all such difficulties.

  • 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.

  • The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

    Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862
  • Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

    Hurt   People   Dishonor  
    John Piper (2009). “Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.348, Multnomah
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