Quotes About Honor

When gentlemen agreed to a duel, they were fighting not for money or land or even women but for honor, the strange commodity that exists because everyone believes that everyone else believes that it exists.

Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

A world that is less invigorated by honor, glory, and ideology and more tempted by the pleasures of bourgeois life is a world in which fewer people are killed.

in the West today public places are no longer named after military victories. Our war memorials depict not proud commanders on horseback but weeping mothers, weary soldiers, or exhaustive lists of names of the dead.

This so-called culture war, I suspect, is the product of a history in which white America took two different paths to civilization. The North is an extension of Europe and continued the court- and commerce-driven Civilizing Process that had been gathering momentum since the Middle Ages. The South and West preserved the culture of honor that sprang up in the anarchic parts of the growing country, balanced by their own civilizing forces of churches, families, and temperance.

There are but three groups worthy of respect," wrote Charles Baudelaire, "the priest, the warrior, and the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.

This so-called culture war, I suspect, is the product of a history in which white America took two different paths to civilization. The North is an extension of Europe and continued the court- and commerce-driven Civilizing Process that had been gathering momentum since the Middle Ages. The South and West preserved the culture of honor that sprang up in the anarchic parts of the growing country, balanced by their own civilizing forces of churches, families, and temperance. DECIVILIZATION

The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, but only retaliation after an insult or other mistreatment.

Some of the regressive customs found in Muslim-majority countries, such as female genital mutilation and "honor killings" of unchaste sisters and daughters, are ancient African or West Asian tribal practices and are misattributed by their perpetrators to Islamic law. Some

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

You can show your daughter by the way you love and honor your wife that she should never settle for less.

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I would love to be in the Hall Of Fame.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

For love of country, they accepted death.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.