#disgrace

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#concept #couples #disgrace #eyes #had

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet. ↗

— Diana Rigg

#disgrace #good #hope #hopefully #i

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#crime #disgrace #does #punishment

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union. ↗

— George Mason

#agreed #because #bring #disgraceful #i

Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one! ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#deceit #deception #disgrace #dishonor #quotes

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117). ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#disgrace #j-m-coetzee #africa

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. ↗

— Lucius Accius

#death #disgrace #entitled #escape #life

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#bring #costly #death #disgrace #disruptive

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#again #along #basic #choice #dialogue

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#belligerent #disgrace #every #individual #itself