By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Theodore Bikel
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
James T. Walsh
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
John Lasseter
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
Matthew Simpson
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
John Lothrop Motley
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
Riccardo Muti
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Jane Porter
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
Flavius Josephus
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus
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