Quotes About Honor

Neil Sheehan

Somehow, amid all the sophistication and diversions of this world, we forgot the basics: take care of business at home first, and never betray your blood.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

If I had my time over I would do the same again, so would any man who dares call himself a man.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time…. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.

It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

So it came to the morning of 21 October 1805, a day that would live for ever in the minds of those who were there.

day that lives still, in the annals of the Royal Navy.

The paradox of honor killings is that societies with the most rigid moral codes end up sanctioning behavior that is supremely immoral: murder.

The United Nations has estimated that there are 5,000 honor killings a year, almost all in the Muslim world. But that estimate appears too low, because so many of the executions are disguised as accidents or suicides.

A politically incorrect point must be noted here. Of the countries where women are held back and subjected to systematic abuses such as honor killings and genital cutting, a very large proportion are predominately Muslim. Most Muslims worldwide don't believe in such practices...but the fact remains that the countries where girls are cut, killer for honor, or kept out of school or the workplace typically have large Muslim populations.

Her only shame was that she felt none.

Political leadership is about achieving tangible good results that make a difference in people's lives, not offering a message of unity, respect, and honor (though that's nice, too). It's not useful to understand world affairs in the broadest possible terms, as a struggle between good and evil.

Nah, pride's just a slick dress uniform and a cheap lie that'll get you killed when the people you're fighting for, who aren't doing any of the actual fighting, start selling you out and

I'm just a Samurai with a gun. Like

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.

This was for her path, for her freedom, for her life and family. To make her dead da proud. She was strong. She was royal. She would set her will. She would do this.

She'd be best off here with the princess with the slaughter seax.

The three women were gracious but remote, dry-eyed players in the royal mummery of Eorpwald and Edwin's grander farewell: the pledges of honor and allegiance between king and overking.