You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart.

You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

There is no rank in sacrifice.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.