Demerit Quotes

My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
Friday, don't despise assassins indiscriminately. As with any tool, merit or demerit lies in how it is used. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death. View quote
Sarada Devi
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Actions may be laudable or blameable; but they cannot be reasonable: Laudable or blameable, therefore, are not the same with reasonable or unreasonable. The merit and demerit of actions frequently contradict, and sometimes controul our natural propensities. But reason has no such influence. Moral distinctions, therefore, are not the offspring of reason. Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals. View quote
David Hume
The Gaza sniper deserves a decoration, and the photographer a demerit. View quote
Avigdor Lieberman
If in taking my new duty, I brought qualities that are lacking of widsom and experience that makes a youth, hence I will try to replace this demerit with a vehement spirit to do deeds. View quote
Abdul Halim of Kedah
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. View quote
George Eliot
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell. View quote
Seneca
Ricardo, writing fifty years later than Smith, showed a greater insight into the working of the economic system; but as for the subtlety (whatever demerit there may be in that!) the Scot does not lose by comparison with the Jew. View quote
Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. (Frances Wright)
As a leader, you should have values and beliefs... It is simply irresponsible to respond to public criticism by simply giving someone a demerit. View quote
Yeh Kuang-shih