History Quotes / HonorBeforeReason

-->DeepSpaceNine

->''Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor''

-->''In Okinawa, honor VERY important''\\

->''"My honor is dearer to me than my life."''
-->-- '''Don Quixote de La Mancha''', ''Literature/DonQuixote''

For a heavenly cause"''
-->-- '''Don Quixote de La Mancha''', ''Man of La Mancha'', "The Impossible Dream"

->''"Accomplish the mission and live...? Why didn't I think of that?"''
-->-- '''Fubuki''', ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories''

'''The Fox:''' Never. ''En garde'', sir.
-->-- ''ComicBook/TheInterman''

->''"The king heard him. 'You stiff-necked fool,' he muttered, 'too proud to listen. Can you eat pride, Stark? Will honor shield your children?'"''
-->-- '''George R.R Martin''', ''[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire A Game of Thrones]]''

->''"Brave men die everyday, unremembered. Courage recieves no prize, but cowardice and dishonour can buy happiness and renown. The brave among us must accept their rewards from within, even in the throes of death."''
-->-- '''The Catechisms Martial''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

'''Shepherd Book:''' It's not your way, Mal.
-->-- ''Film/{{Serenity}}''

->''"Bro, you are such an idiot! [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules He offered us money, but no, you had to go and do the right thing!]] Since when are you such a goddamn boy scout?"''
-->-- '''Eliot Salem''', ''ArmyOfTwo''

->''"But great victories of the human spirit against fearful odds-as both Themistocles and Churchill so clearly saw-are not won in the last resort, by logic. Reason is not enough"''
-->-- '''Peter Green''', ''The Greco-Persian wars''

->''"It doesn't matter that his Grail may or may not exist, what matters is that he strives for the perfection of his soul and the salvation of his race and that he has never wavered or lost faith."''
-->-- '''Delenn''', ''Series/{{Babylon 5}}'', "Grail"

'''Worf''': ... except my honor.
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "The Way of the Warrior"

->'''Jinnah:''' [After being offered "Shameful Letters" from his political enemies while fighting over Pakistans right to be it's own country]: [It would be] more shameful of us to read them.
->'''Politictian:''' We don't read them sir; It was sugested that we use them.
->'''Jinnah:''' We do not decend to this level! The shame is not theirs, it is ours. Destroy them!
->'''Politictian:´''' They are talking about our county! Savaging our people! [Notices Jinnah's look] ... I am sorry sir.
->'''Jinnah:''' I am to sorry. For the thought that blackend your generous mind.
->'''Guardian Angel:''' [to [[ChristopherLee Christmas!Past!Visiting!Jinnah]]] Well, a bit prudish of you. You could have changed the entire course of history with those few letters.
->'''Christmas!Past!Visiting!Jinnah''': Are you trying to play Satan with me? Did I hear you saying that I should have tried to use blackmail against my political opponments?
->'''Guardian Angel''': It would have saved lives.
->'''Christmas!Past!Visiting!Jinnah''': History is made by the will and the wants of millions of people, not by some letters and not by some blackmail.
-->--{{Jinnah}}

->''In this movement the gentlemen who led the British army displayed those virtues that were as much a part of their social and intellectual order as the shortcomings that had got them into the present mess. They had defied reason in the interwar years; they defied it now with an instinctive faith that the right thing to do was the most dangerous and difficult. They had been bred to provide leadership; they prized bravery and resolution above any kind of cleverness and expertise; and they were to fight their way out of catastrophe, as had their country in 1940, by treating facts as less real then willpower.''
-->--''The Desert Generals'' by Correlli Barnett

-->''In Okinawa, honor VERY important''
-->''TheKarateKidPartII''

-->''Film/TheKarateKid Part II''

-->-- ''The Interman''

-->-- '''Fubuki''', ''{{Disgaea}} 2''

-->-- '''George R.R Martin''', ''[[ASongOfIceAndFire A Game of Thrones]]''

-->-- '''The Catechisms Martial''', ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''

-->-- '''Eliot Salem''', ''{{Army of Two}}''

-->-- '''Delenn''', ''{{Babylon 5}}, "Grail"

-->-- ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "The Way of the Warrior"

->In this movement the gentlemen who led the British army displayed those virtues that were as much a part of their social and intellectual order as the shortcomings that had got them into the present mess. They had defied reason in the interwar years; they defied it now with an instinctive faith that the right thing to do was the most dangerous and difficult. They had been bred to provide leadership; they prized bravery and resolution above any kind of cleverness and expertise; and they were to fight their way out of catastrophe, as had their country in 1940, by treating facts as less real then willpower.

-->KarateKid Part II

->''"It doesn't matter that his Grail may or may not exist, what matters is that he strives for the perfection of his soul and the salvation of his race and that he has never wavered a lost faith."''

-->KarateKidPartII

-->In this movement the gentlemen who led the British army displayed those virtues that were as much a part of their social and intellectual order as the shortcomings that had got them into the present mess. They had defied reason in the interwar years; they defied it now with an instinctive faith that the right thing to do was the most dangerous and difficult. They had been bred to provide leadership; they prized bravery and resolution above any kind of cleverness and expertise; and they were to fight their way out of catastrophe, as had their country in 1940, by treating facts as less real then willpower.
-->''The Desert Generals'' by Correlli Barnett

-->-- '''Don Quixote de La Mancha''', ''DonQuixote''

->'''Politictian:'' We don't read them sir; It was sugested that we use them.

-->--{Jinnah]]

'''Jinnah:''' [After being offered "Shameful Letters" from his political enemies while fighting over Pakistans right to be it's own country]: [It would be] more shameful of us to read them.
'''Politictian:'' We don't read them sir; It was sugested that we use them.
'''Jinnah:''' We do not decend to this level! The shame is not theirs, it is ours. Destroy them!
'''Politictian:´''' They are talking about our county! Savaging our people! [Notices Jinnah's look] ... I am sorry sir.
'''Jinnah:''' I am to sorry. For the thought that blackend your generous mind.
'''Guardian Angel:''' [[to Christmas!Past!Visiting!Jinnah] Well, a bit prudish of you. You could have changed the entire course of history with those few letters.
'''Christmas!Past!Visiting!Jinnah''': Are you trying to play Satan with me? Did I hear you saying that I should have tried to use blackmail against my political opponments?
'''Guardian Angel''': It would have saved lives.
'''Christmas!Past!Visiting!Jinnah''': History is made by the will and the wants of millions of people, not by some letters and not by some blackmail.

-->-- ''{{Serenity}}''

-->''"But great victories of the human spirit against fearful odds-as both Themistocles and Churchill so clearly saw-are not won in the last resort, by logic. Reason is not enough"''

-->''"It doesn't matter that his Grail may or may not exist, what matters is that he strives for the perfection of his soul and the salvation of his race and that he has never wavered a lost faith."''

->"My honor is dearer to me than my life."
-->-- ''DonQuixote''

->"Accomplish the mission and live...? Why didn't I think of that?"

->''The king heard him. "You stiff-necked fool," he muttered, "too proud to listen. Can you eat pride, Stark? Will honor shield your children?"''
-->-- ''[[ASongOfIceAndFire A Game of Thrones]]'', George R.R Martin

->''Brave men die everyday, unremembered. Courage recieves no prize, but cowardice and dishonour can buy happiness and renown. The brave among us must accept their rewards from within, even in the throes of death.''

->"Bro, you are such an idiot! [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules He offered us money, but no, you had to go and do the right thing!]] Since when are you such a goddamn boy scout?"

-->''But great victories of the human spirit against fearful odds-as both Themistocles and Churchill so clearly saw-are not won in the last resort, by logic. Reason is not enough
-->Peter Green, ''The Greco-Persian wars''

-->''It doesn't matter that his Grail may or may not exist, what matters is that he strives for the perfection of his soul and the salvation of his race and that he has never wavered a lost faith.''
--> Delenn, BabylonFive, ''Grail''

->'''Gowron''': "Think about what you are doing. If you turn your back on me now... for as long as I live, you will not be welcome anywhere in the Klingon Empire. Your family will be removed from the High Council, your lands seized, and your House stripped of its titles! You will have nothing!"
->'''Worf''': "... except my honor."

'''The Fox:''' Never. ''En guarde'', sir.

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--> Delenn, Babylon5, Grail