Bhagat Singh

Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.

Indian Activist

Christopher Robin Milne

War and love - they have much in common. You can theorize about them, but until you have experienced them, you cannot know them, for the emotions that they engender are as complicated and as conflicting, as noble and as ignoble, as any that life has to offer.

English Businessman

Maria Montessori

All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.

Italian Educator

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Russian Philosopher

Frank Lloyd Wright

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

American Architect

Benjamin Spock

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

American Scientist

Lee Siegel

Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.

American Critic

Ben Domenech

The 'freedom agenda' of George W. Bush's second inaugural was a noble concept - but in practice, it offered ignoble results.

American Writer

Amber Rudd

Britain First has deeply ignoble form on trying to 'hijack' the poppy to increase their popularity and donations.

British Politician

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

American President

Carries a judgement or disapproval, implying a lack of honor or morality.

Negative Connotation

Usage implies the speaker's personal view on honor, which can be subjective.

Subjective Viewpoint

Understanding of 'ignoble' can vary across different cultures and historical periods.

Cultural Perspective

Refers to origins without prestige, often used in historical or literary contexts.

Modest Background

Indicates that someone comes from a common or non-privileged segment of society.

Non-Elitist Tone

Authors use 'ignoble' to set characters' social status, affecting the plot or their growth.

Narrative Device

 and that every person ought to be treated as an individual, and not prejudged by the statistics of particular groups that they may belong to. Also, even if we were born with certain ignoble motives,

Steven Pinker: Human...

 they went out this morning and found three three lambs that work I'll kill that happened last night I know it's just an ignoble everything here whatever you call it but it it that's what

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