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In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

— Boris Pasternak

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

— Robert Dale Owen

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

— William Lyon Phelps

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

— Publilius Syrus

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

— Asa Gray

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

— Oliver North

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.

— Shiv Khera

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

— Akhenaton

✗Opposing Perspectives

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

— Mark Twain

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

— Arthur Keith