Unworthy Quotations

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.

Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.

What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

Mr. Prime minister, take advantage of this opportunity, because your government is unworthy to continue functioning.

Harwood's testimony was so unworthy of belief that we would not dignify any remark from his mouth with any questions. No jury could credit a single word from his mouth.

He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another

For the Stoics do not say that a god is involved with the divisions in a particular liver or particular bird calls (which would be unbefitting, and unworthy of a god, and could not possibly happen); rather, the world was shaped from the beginning in

Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

He (Gore) attacked Governor Bush as being unworthy of being president for having some of the same views that he now compliments his running mate for having. I guess it's risky if you are a Republican to have those views, but it's courageous if you are Joe Lieberman,

Just the one prize vouchsafed unworthy me, / Seven years a gardener of the untoward ground.

I will fully declare what result the giver obtains after death, if he gives food, destined for the gods or manes, to a man who is unworthy to sit in the company.

When an elected official has broken the law in the process of obtaining office, he or she is unworthy of that trust and of that office,

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century Most people feel unworthy of forgiveness. They have a tremendous sense of unworthiness, even if outwardly they are antagonistic toward God and the Gospel.

I want to stress how much this situation is unworthy of the natural requirements that we owe to people here in France, whatever their origin or nationality,

Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him.

I have realized my True Lord God, while the other unworthy ones have gone astray.

They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them

I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

The legislation that passed the house is hard-hearted and unworthy of our nation. It must not become law.

Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

We have to overcome our societal conditioning which says we are unworthy.