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'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. – David Borenstein
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song. – Will Durant
Honor does not have to be defended. – Robert J. Sawyer
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. – Robert X Cringely
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love. – Bryant McGill
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. – Winston Churchill
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. – Joseph Sobran
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple Who is to blame for the riots The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings The killers are to blame. – Dan Quayle
You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one. – Edward Keating
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. – Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. – Herbert Hoover
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. – Socrates
Lay aside the thirst for honor from others and seek to honor others instead – The Omani shed
Killing is in your blood.Its just a matter of time before yo break the skin ! – josh hayes UK
I thought Spartans fought with honor. Yet you seek to kill me when I have no way to defend myself? Not fair! – Hermes
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. – Andrew Carnegie
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. – Jeanne-Marie Roland
A good way to keep a mob of peasants from killing your monster is when they break into your castle, make them be real quiet, then open a door and there's the monster, sound asleep. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate. – La Rochefoucauld
A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together. – Mehmet Murat ildan
A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself. – Marguerite de Valois
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. – Sir Winston Churchill
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in education these days arises, not from defects in the students,teachers or schools, not from want of equipment or technology, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of honor, virtue and kindness. Sound education... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection of childhood, on unselfish performance of teachers and on accountability and reliability. – Paul. F. Meekin
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. – Homer
An honor is not diminished for being shared. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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