Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.
Thaddeus Stevens

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare

The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
Alfred Rosenberg

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
Viktor Korchnoi

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Elijah Wood

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

True nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. 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

Virtue is the truest nobility.
Miguel De Cervantes

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Benito Mussolini

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
Theodore Roethke

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
Charlie Sheen