I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives, and fulfill its international legal commitments under the peacekeeping mandate, will not find itself in isolation, no matter what our partners in Europe or the United States may think, expressing their bloc mentality.
A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!
Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour
Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?
You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.
My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight.
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.
Whenever you find a good idea, search for the owner to honour him!
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
The post of honour is a private station.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.
Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!
Life is a whirlwind of many opportunities. Choose to embrace all of them in deepest gratitude. Learn to forgive yourself and honour the heart that beats within you, as well as the head that rests on your shoulders. Learn how to believe in people again and not be judging or cynical to various beliefs. We are all of one light on this one Earth, and loving humanity makes all the difference.