Dishonorable Quotes

33 quotes by 28 authors

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable… — Charlotte Bunch
War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is… — Charles Sumner
Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral?… — Ezra Taft Benson
Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one. — Leonard Matlovich
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so… — Thomas Jefferson
An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war. — Mark Twain
Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable? — Charles Sumner
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… — Thomas Jefferson
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.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
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,… — H. L. Mencken
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
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,… — Matt Shea
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. — Samuel Richardson
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… — Robert Green Ingersoll
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… — Charles Peguy
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. — Seneca the Younger
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… — Bruce Jay Friedman
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. — Epictetus
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. — Thomas Sowell

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