Honor Before Reason/Quotes

"My honor is dearer to me than my life."

—Don Quixote de La Mancha, Don Quixote

"To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
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, Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories

Van Meach: At least you didn't try to poison me.

The Fox: Never. En garde, sir.

—The Interman

"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, 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, Warhammer 40,000

Malcolm Reynolds: I had an out. Had every reason in the 'Verse to leave 'em [River and Simon] and haul anchor.

Shepherd Book: It's not your way, Mal.

—Serenity

"Bro, you are such an idiot! 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, Army of Two

"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, Babylon 5, "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.

—Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "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 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
The Karate Kid Part II

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