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“We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.”

People Men Stills Seems Sacrifice Atheism Pride Tragedy Shame Positive Atheism Diets Honour Altars Unthinkable Aftermath

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think, without desert of gentle deed And noble worth, to be advanced high, Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed, Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.”

Source: Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry

“Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?”

Mean Found Shame Sacred Honour Decency Manly Indefinable Sacred Things

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“For a nation to be known as warrior is a shame! For a nation to be known as peaceful is an honour! Violence brings shame, killing brings disgrace; peacefulness brings honour, nonviolence brings esteem!”

Nations Known Violence Shame Killing Esteem Peaceful Warrior Honour Nonviolence Disgrace Peacefulness

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!”

People Proud Shame Clever Belonging Honour Be Proud

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.”

Feelings Shame Absence Newspapers Honour Metrics

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”

Said Enough Earth Lord Shame Shoulders Honour Adam Bows Beggar Emperor Poorest Narnia

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian

“There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.”

Men May Art War Worry Five Trouble Dangerous Destruction Shame Faults Sensitive Insult Honour Capture Temper Cowardice Art Of War Delicacy Hasty Provoked Recklessness Solicitude

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War