„To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes“

„Your spirit is the true shield.“

—  Morihei Ueshiba founder of aikido 1883 - 1969

The Art of Peace (1992)

„Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.“

—  Terry Pratchett, buch Snuff

Quelle: Snuff

„[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.“

—  Anthony Trollope English novelist (1815-1882) 1815 - 1882

The New Zealander (1965), p. 63; written 1855-6, published posthumously 1965

„Verily they are the basest and meanest of men who account avarice prudence, and clemency ignoble.“

—  As-Saffah First Abbasid caliph 722 - 754

„A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.“

—  William Faulkner American writer 1897 - 1962

„Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.“

—  Pierre Corneille French tragedian 1606 - 1684

Ta vertu met ta gloire au-dessus de ton crime.
Tulle, act V, scene iii.
Horace (1639)

„Three things trust and cherish well-
The horse on which you ride,
The beast that guards and watches,
And your shield-mate at your side.“

—  Mercedes Lackey, buch By the Sword

Quelle: By the Sword

„During bombing raids in Iraq, the media liked to say that Saddam Hussein used people as human shields. That's not accurate. Although it's true they were used as shields, the fact is they were humans already. So if these humans were used as shields, they were human shields. They weren't being used as human shields. Got that?“

—  George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008

Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)

„You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.“

—  Ellen Goodman American journalist and writer 1941

Attributed

„If you go down a road that satisfies your personal predilections and relationships and sacrifices the common good of the country, including the elementary institution by which its civilization is sustained, then you're not only derelict in your public duty, you are abandoning your obligation as a human being. And frankly, people throw around words like "crime against humanity", I think that kind of disregard for the God-endowed natural rights of human being is the archetype of all crimes against humanity, and I think we have an entire elite faction that is now committed to committing such a crime against the American people.“

—  Alan Keyes American politician 1950

2013-04-02
The Talk to Solomon Show Live, quoted in * 2013-04-02
Keyes: Marriage Equality is the 'Archetype of all Crimes Against Humanity'
Brian
Tashman
Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/keyes-marriage-equality-archetype-all-crimes-against-humanity
regarding Senator Rob Portman's support of same-sex marriage after learning that his son is gay.
2009

„Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name!“

—  Eugéne Ionesco Romanian playwright 1909 - 1994

Jacques from Jacques or the Submission (1955)

„Locking spear by spear, shield against shield at the base, so buckler
leaned on buckler, helmet on helmet, man against man.“

—  Homér, Ilias

XIII, 130–131 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Original: (el) Φράξαντες δόρυ δουρί, σάκος σάκεϊ προθελύμνῳ·
ἀσπὶς ἄρ' ἀσπίδ' ἔρειδε, κόρυς κόρυν, ἀνέρα δ' ἀνήρ.

„Darkness shields as much as it threatens.“

—  R. Scott Bakker, buch The Judging Eye

Quelle: The Judging Eye

„You can abandon your own body, but never let go of your honor.“

—  Miyamoto Musashi, buch Dokkōdō

Dokkodo

„The truth is often one's best shield.“

—  James Rollins, buch The Devil Colony

Quelle: The Devil Colony

„Since God has revealed himself as a Father, we would be guilty of the basest ingratitude if we did not behave as his children.“

—  John Calvin French Protestant reformer 1509 - 1564

Page 19.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)

„The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.“

—  Erich Fromm, buch Escape from Freedom

Quelle: Escape from Freedom (1941), Ch. 1

„Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.“

—  Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

The ABC Murders (1936)
Quelle: And Then There Were None

„The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.“

—  Azar Nafisi, buch Reading Lolita in Tehran

Quelle: Reading Lolita in Tehran