Honor System Quotes

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

Human laws are entirely destitute of the sanction of rewards. To confer honors for obedience would be as ridiculous as unavailing. The honor of many would resolve itself into the honor of none. To dispense pecuniary rewards would be nugatory or impracticable. In an unqualified extent, no government would be able to supply the funds; and even in a restricted form, its operation would be to receive money with one hand as a premium, and to pay it back with the other in the shape of a tax.

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family; it's not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.

My honor is my loyalty.

There are three basic fundamentals of Arab society, shame, honor, and revenge.

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.

Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.

Village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two.

It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other.

I only fight clean fighters. I'll fight anybody in the UFC that's clean. Or dirty. Or clean.

Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.

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

Consumption of wine has been made legal; mixing of sexes in the schools … has led to the proliferation of bastards. Depravity has spread and we see that women no longer cover themselves but display their bodies with makeup for all to see both indoors and outdoors. Where is the dignity of the Algerian man after his honor has been publicly flouted?

They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it said it was going to do. But a contract, a piece of paper held you and so they didn't make any contracts.