"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience"
- Michel de Montaigne
About this Quote
This quote states that an individual of integrity would rather jeopardize their track record or social status than do something that goes against their ethical values or beliefs. This suggests that a person's personal worths and sense of right and wrong need to hold higher importance than external appreciation or recognition.
"It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record"
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"