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“What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.”

“I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to.”

People Should Believe Persons I Can Different Facts Feelings Certain I Believe Shots Shame Treatment Suicidal

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.”

Should Looks Body Belief Standards Shame Arbitrary Physique Standards Of Beauty

Author:Martha Beck

“I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.”

People Understanding Hurt Issues Policy Emotional Shame Longing Disappointment Stem Discourse Abandonment Public Discourse

Author:Susie Orbach

“Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.”

Kind Use Courses Shame Cooking Eggs Cheese Hippie Spirals

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“The only shame is to have none.”

Shame Guilt

Book:Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

“A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.”

Enough Shame Burden Mental Illness Secrecy Diagnosis

Author:Jane Pauley

“It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.”

Done Felt Rocks Source My Family Shame Blue Rock And Roll Collars Blue Collar

Author:Liz Phair

“I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.”

Thinking Shows Politics Terrible Shame Show Business Nerd

Author:Sydney Pollack

“Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.”

Inspirational Wells Character Lying Literature Conditions Honor Shame Your Honor

Book:An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems

Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems

“In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.”

Men Country States Young Parent Common Shame Various Welfare Young Man Why Not Welfare State European Countries

Author:Dennis Prager

“Tell the truth and shame the devil.”

Honesty Devil Shame Telling The Truth

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Comfort Edition

“There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.”

Years Past Enjoy Quiet Shame Realization Quiet Life

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.”

Ifs Should Art Whole Moments Would Be Together Film Humanity Aspect Shame Celebrate Cinema Divides Festivals Hymns Film Festivals

Author:Keanu Reeves

“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”

Giving Feels Pain Cutting Shame Vanity Jealousy Assistance

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

Source: To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts

“I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.”

Way Made Hard Feelings Deals Shame Violent Backgrounds Abandonment Realised

Author:Mickey Rourke

“One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.”

Dangerous Shame

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?”

Heart Reason Joy Suffering Struggle Doors Regret My Heart Shame Accepted Sand Adore Captured Frantic

Author:George Sand

“It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.”

World Feels Two Happens Sports Chance Fans Shame Series Fortunate World Series Cubs

Author:Ryne Sandberg

“Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.”

Thinking Men Feelings Love You Shame Agree

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.”

Thinking Way Writing Mean Doe Seems Able Literature Novel Talent Draws Shame Rate Traditional Graphic Graphic Novels Second Rate

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.”

Dog Shame Allowing Bites Dog Bite

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”

Mind Lying Shame Guilt Guilty Memorable Thieves Suspicion Dishonesty Guilty Conscience Feeling Guilty Shame And Guilt Rotten Apples Guilty Person

Author:William Shakespeare

“Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?”

Art Country Matter Nations Support Pride Survival Understood Art Is Shame France Ireland Sweden Austria National Pride

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.”

Feels Trying Ideas Kids Realizing Shame Majority Add Faults Disaster No Idea Reports Recipes Lack Of Education Molestation

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“You can cry, ain't no shame in it.”

Life Inspirational Inspiration Motivational Success Cry Positive Shame Life Changing

Author:Will Smith

“Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.”

Source: Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve

“When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.”

Different Home School Speak Language Parent Community Growing Up Growing Shame Treasure Being Different Classmates Specialness

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.”

People Looks Has Beens Religion Names Middle Events Horror Hatred Shame Fuel Eastern

Author:Cat Stevens

“As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.”

Shame Phenomenon

Author:Jock Sturges

“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”

Men Evil Literature Wonder Shame Guilt Wicked Ashamed Nonviolent Communication Shame And Guilt

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift: containing interesting and valuable papers, not hitherto published ; with a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift: containing interesting and valuable papers, not hitherto published ; with a memoir of the author

“Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.”

Feelings Shame Absence Newspapers Honour Metrics

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.”

Men Kind Littles Hours Brother Shame Be Kind Hints Chuckles

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.”

Evil Nature Shame

Author:Tertullian

“As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.”

Should Fields Concerned Shame Stuck Journalism Mediocrity Apathy Hacks Stagnant Bogs Myopia

Book:Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.”

Ifs Men Suffering Evil Literature Shame Ill Profit Deeds Disgraceful Good Words

Author:Aeschylus

“In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.”

Should Horror Europe Shame Committed Bows Massacres

Author:Desmond Tutu

“From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.”

Literature Secret Shame Spy Infancy Infancy Is

Author:John Updike

“I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.”

Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

“One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.”

Feels Children Mother Fall Inspiring Failing Ideals Shame Our Children Mothers Day Bad Mother

Book:Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

“If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.”

Ifs Feels Doe Inspire Behavior Weight Shame Bags Engines Cheese Popcorn Modification Behavior Modification

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.”

Thinking Film Havens Please Shame Campaigns Behalf Prospects Doing Me

Author:Julie Walters

“Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?”

Money Wonderful Generations Shame Wonderful Things Future Generation Saving Money

Author:Earl Wilson

“Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.”

Long Country Pride Shame Endure Israel Tendencies Judaism

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.”

Men Matter Sleep Enemy Military Pride Shame Wwii World War 2 Outraged Smitten Appraisal Military Man Counter Attack

Author:Isoroku Yamamoto

“Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.”

People Ifs World Looks Today Three Half Six Shame Financial Population Billions Finance Gambling Globes Loan Financial System

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.”

Ifs Needs Persons Helping Suffering Shame Seeking Revelations Worth It Bipolar Seeking Help

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

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