Words matter. These are the best Disgrace Quotes from famous people such as Josh Billings, Van Heflin, Rick Atkinson, Stephen Ambrose, Sigmund Freud, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
I think it’s a disgrace to make actors become pitchmen. You see it on ‘The Beverly Hillbillies,’ you see it on ‘Bonanza.’
That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it’s, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it’s our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
I think it’s a disgrace that some would allow extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.
The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet.
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
It’s an absolute disgrace that there isn’t a books programme on the BBC.
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.
It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.
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.
Americans should understand that 50%, or something like, of the kids in inner-city schools, often poor and often minority, don’t graduate. And the ones that do don’t necessarily have the skills to get a job. That is the biggest disgrace in this country.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, ‘I gave it everything I had,’ it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.
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.
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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’.
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white racism has lost its legitimacy in the world and become an almost universal disgrace.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
The Veterans Administration is a scandal. It’s corrupt, and what’s going on is a disgrace. And, believe me, if I win, if I become president, that will end. The veterans will be treated properly.
It’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.
Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
It’s an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie’s comment that it’s a disgrace to die wealthy.
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.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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.
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you’d be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it’s terribly inconvenient.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
When people told me that ‘Polladhavan’ was a remake of ‘Bicycle Thieves,’ I wanted to laugh because comparing ‘Polladhavan’ to ‘Bicycle Thieves’ is a disgrace to the latter.
If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.
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.
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn’t want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God.
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
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.
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
Modi is a disgrace to the prime minister’s post.
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.
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.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
‘Wicked Nights’ is the story of Zacharel, the new leader of the Army of Disgrace – heavenly warriors in danger of falling from grace – and Annabelle, a human who has spent the last four years locked in an institution for the criminally insane.
It’s no disgrace to play against the world’s champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.
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.
Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.
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.
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
