Honor.

"He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog."
 

- Maimonides

 

"If you have a sense of honor,
Then you will feel distress;
If you have no sense of honor,
You will lose your manliness"

- Obeyd-e Zakani 
 
"Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore."

- Florence Nightingale

 گر در اوج فلکم باید مرد
عمر در گند به سر نتوان برد
 
"Death, immediate, in the firmament today,
Is worth a hundred lives enmeshed in decay."

- Parviz Natel Khanlari

از مرگ نترسید، از این بترسید كه وقتی زنده اید، چیزی درون شما بمیرد، چیزی بنام انسانیت
 
"Do not fear death, fear that while you live something inside you should die, something called humanity."

 
- Gandhi
 
"Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."

"I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men."

- Emiliano Zapata

 

سیصد گل سرخ یک گل نصرانی
 ما را ز سر بریده می ترسانی
 ما گر زسر بریده می ترسیدیم
 در محفل عاشقان نمی رقصیدیم
 
"Three hundred red flowers one Christian flower
Do you want to scare us by decapitation
If we were afraid of decapitation
We would not dance in the gathering of lovers"
 
- Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani
 
"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."

- Bertolt Brecht

  "One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying."

- Joan of Arc

 "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
 
"Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles.
Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it.
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?
Expediency ask the question, is it politic?
Vanity asks the question, is it popular?
 But, conscience ask the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right." 

 

- Martin Luther King Jr.
 
پای در زنجیر خوش تر تا که دست اندر لجن
 
"Legs in shackles more fortunate than hands in on sludge"
 

تو در نماز عشق چه خواندی
که سالهاست
بالای دار رفتی و این شحنه های پیر
از مرده ات
هنوز پرهیز می‌کنند

 

"What did you pray in the prayer of love that it is years since you climbed the gallows and these old authorities still fear you even as dead"

 

- Shafiei Kadkani

 

"Among the believers are men who have proven true to what they pledged to Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their pledge ˹with their lives˺, others are waiting ˹their turn˺. They have never changed ˹their commitment˺ in the least." (33:23)

 

- The Quran 

 

"…as did the holy martyrs who suffered death rather than obey the impious commands of tyrants."

- Thomas Aquinas

"We know well, that Jesus and his brave apostles did not let themselves scare as such. They would rather walk into death than let themselves scare to do, what was against their conscience."

- Kaj Munk

 

"I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond."

 
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."

"Here is no choice but either do or die."

- William Wallace
 
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
 
- Tom Paine
 
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."
 
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
 
"I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind."
 
- John Paul Jones
 
"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
 
"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
 
- Aristotle
 
"The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it."
 
- Saadi Shirazi
 
"Give me liberty or give me death."
 
- Patrick Henry

 

"I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear."

 

- Witold Pilecki

 

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."

 

- Soren Kierkegaard

 

"You think you are alive because you breathe air?
Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead.
Die in Love and stay alive forever."

- Rumi

 "Death with dignity is better than life of humiliation."

هَيْهاتِ مِنّا الذلَّة

"Don't accept injustice/oppression"
 
"Unworthy is life under tyranny"

- Imam Hussein

سرم را بشکن نرخم را نشکن
 
"Break my head don't break my value"
 
- Persian proverb

"By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness."

- Maximilien Robespierre

 "If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."

- Malcolm X
 
"…appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free."
 
- Joseph Warren
 
"I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting."
 
"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man"
 
"We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it"
 
"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms"
 
- Che Guevara
 
"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."
 
- Theodore Roosevelt
 
"You'll live. Only the best get killed."
 

- Charles de Gaulle
 
"Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it."
 
- Ali Ibn Abi Talib
 
"Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies."
 
- Saint Patrick
 

"Sufficient honour for you is that you are Allah’s servant, and sufficient pride for you is that the Exalted is your Lord."

- Ibn Al-Qayyim

 

"Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."

 
"And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
 
- Abraham Lincoln
 
ز گهواره تا گور آزادی بجوی
 
"Seek freedom from the cradle to the grave"

 
- Mohammad Maleki

 

"I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."
 
- Harriet Tubman
 
"Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!"
 
"Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!"
 
- John Brown
 
"Pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend…to assure the survival and success of liberty."
 
"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality."
 
"There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live."
 
- John F. Kennedy
 
"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood."
 
- John Adams
 
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
 
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
 
"Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?"
 
- George Washington

 

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."

 

- Leonardo da Vinci

 

"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

- William Shakespeare

 

"Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them."

 

- William Faulkner

 

"Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you."

 

- Aeschylus

 

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war."

 

- Winston Churchill

 

"The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds… And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it."

 

- Clark Gable

 

"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."

 

- Sathya Sai Baba

 

"Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor."

 

- Nelson Mandela

 

"Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness."

 

- John Piper

 

"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth."

 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"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."

 

- Frederick Victor Grey Wymark

 

"I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace."

 

- Diane Ackerman

 

"A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?"

 

- Marcus Eremita

 

"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 waves that strive against it break, but which is itself never broken."

 

- John Climacus

 

"Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself."

 

- Herman Melville

 

"Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is."

 

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

"We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory."

 

- John Evelyn

 

"Sacred interpreter of human thought,
How few respect or use thee as they ought!
But all shall give account of every wrong,
Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue;
Who prostitute it in the cause of vice,
Or sell their glory at a market-price!"

 

- William Cowper

 

"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."

 

- William Herschel

 

"I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility."

 

- Bill Maher

 

"Every day, we are given countless opportunities to offer our gifts to those at work, in our families, our relationships… If you give less than what you are, you dishonor the gift of your own precious life."

 

- Wayne Muller

 

"I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this: "Lord, we are all your creatures. Pity your servants, and turn them to repentance," and then you will perceptibly bear grace in your soul. Induce your heart to love your enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good will, shall help you in all things, and will Himself show you experience. But whoever thinks evil of his enemies does not have love for God and has not known God."

 

- Silouan the Athonite

 

"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."

 

"Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners."

 

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

"A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of heaven, who has been indulged to sit at royal banquets, who knows the eternal love of God to him, cannot bear that there should be any evil way in him that might grieve the Spirit and bring dishonor to the name of Christ. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a truly awakened Christian."

 

- Charles Spurgeon

 

"Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker."

 

- Zoroaster

 

"There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars."

 

- Charley Reese

 

"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!"

 

- Neale Donald Walsch

 

"I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor."

 

- Theodore Roosevelt

 

"It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."

 

- Horace

 

"It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue."

 

- Samuel Adams

 

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