- published: 09 Apr 2016
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Honour or honor (see spelling differences; from the Latin word honos, honoris) is an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affects both the social standing and the self-evaluation of an individual or corporate body such as a family, school, regiment or nation. Accordingly, individuals (or corporate bodies) are assigned worth and stature based on the harmony of their actions with a specific code of honour, and the moral code of the society at large.
Honour is adherence to what is right. To some people it is also standing by or for someone.[citation needed]
Honour can be viewed in the light of Psychological nativism as being as real to the human condition as love, and likewise deriving from the formative personal bonds that establish one's personal dignity and character. From the point of moral relativism, honour is perceived as arising from universal concerns for material circumstance and status, rather than fundamental differences in principle between those who hold different honour codes.
Gaze into the fire - Gaze into the flame
And from that it'll rise - Simple yet so effective
A choice to be made - To be the sheep or the shepherd
To be the hammer or the nail - To fail or prevail
In hearts drained of honour
These chants shall resonate plenty
In hearts vile and hollow
These chants will sneak in gently
In hearts drained of honour
These chants will leave them empty
In hearts dead and shallow
These chants shall rise eternally
In the ashes of a fire neglected - A seed a spectre unexpected
A fire that never rests - Unconquered sun reawake
Sound thy trumpets tune thy drums - And sharpen thy daggers
Let them know we're coming - Carrying the winds that shatter
"Be your friend's true friend to him and his friends
Beware of befriending and enemy's friend"
"Be your friend's true friend, return gift for gift
Repay laughter with laughter again
But betrayal with treachery"