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John McCarthy

"Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor."

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"Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor."

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"This was the noblest Roman of them all."

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"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."

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"Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done."

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"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."

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"Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor..."

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"A writer has to live with a sense of honor."

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"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."

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"I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account."

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"Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child."

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"A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself."

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"Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it."
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"Compassion is contempt with a human face."
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"Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side."
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"A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest."
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"Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf."
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