Disgrace Quotes

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune’s power.

Even though there wasn’t much damage, it’s a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.

I learned from Linus Pauling it’s not a disgrace in science to publish something that’s wrong. What’s bad is to publish something that’s not very interesting.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

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

Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment protection as human speech. As a result, corporations now can spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections – often in secret, without any public disclosure.

The power the fossil fuel industry exerts over Congress is polluting American democracy, the propaganda it emits through its front groups is polluting our public discourse, and, of course, its carbon emissions are polluting our atmosphere and oceans – it’s a triple whammy and a disgrace.

We are seeing a changed Mumbai, but having showcased Dharavi in ‘Slum Dog Millionaire‘ brought shame and disgrace to our city. Whenever the firangs visit Mumbai, they must visit Dharavi; it has become a sightseeing spot. However, I feel saddened about it.

Iran’s continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran’s leaders.

Performers like to perform, and there’s certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

Losing is no disgrace if you’ve given your best.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one’s inner power.

I think it’s a disgrace that some would allow extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

It is a disgrace. I think darts should be at the Olympics. Obviously you’d have to cut out the drinking side of the game. But apart from that there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be there.

It’s an absolute disgrace that there isn’t a books programme on the BBC.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it’s a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

I’d have to say that reality TV ruined our family, and it’s a disgrace.

The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it’s terribly inconvenient.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy’s hand, when you hate mutually.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

I think it’s a disgrace that we’re allowing extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it’s Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

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

That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

I used to get comments off people saying, ‘I think it’s a disgrace, you need to be relaxing, you’re pregnant, you need to take the next 10 months off!’ But that doesn’t suit me or my lifestyle or the way I feel about myself. I train a lot for anxiety, it makes me feel good and I like it.

But it’s a disgrace that food banks are needed in the first place, patching up the holes left by an inefficient and downright barbaric attack on the meagre safety net of what remains of a notion of ‘social security‘.