Best shame & evil Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.”

Knows Men Made Stills Soul Home Evil Pay Cities Teach Honest He Man Grew Late Lows Shame Lays Train Folks Currents Deeds Made It Pay The Price Practise Warp Villainy

Book:Antigone

Source: Antigone

“Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.”

Desire Evil Shame Jail

Author:Austin O'Malley

“The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.”

“Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.”

Men Reason Lying Evil Speech Shame Tongue Wicked Significance Deceiving Monstrous Depraved

Author:Jon Jones

“I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.”

Mean Soul Self Reason Fall Evil Objects Gains Destruction Shame Sake Seeking Ruins Fallen Motive No Reason Wickedness Foul Shameful Self Destruction Depraved Firmament

Book:The Confessions

Source: The Confessions

“There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.”

Should Humans Ideas Body Evil Sex Attitude Built Shame Guilt Ashamed Human Body Taboo Prohibition

Author:George Carlin

“Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.”

Thinking Evil Term Animal Shame Victim Villain Good And Bad

Author:Justin Torres

“When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.”

Ifs Want Littles Done Evil Enemy Five Prove Shame Angry Add Injustice Curse Obsessed Bless Cursed Hideous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.”

“The outsider hero is hero riding into town, he's the gunslinger, shame - the same thing, he didn't want to do it anymore, he wanted to live a different life but part of who you are sort of haunts you and you can't run away from evil and if you have special skills, and most people are mistreated, which is unfortunately in our world, we always need an equalizer, that type of character to come to our rescue.”

“A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.”

Suffering Evil Shame Repentance True Repentance

Book:Aphorisms from Shakespeare

Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare

“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

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

Evil Nature Shame

Author:Tertullian

“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

“That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold.”

Heart Evil Gold Shame Miles Music Business Heart Of Gold

Author:Dave Wakeling

“Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.”

Firsts May Doe Eye Fall Evil Sin Enemy Hell Devil Shame Blind Guilt Commit Ruins Dumb Labour Sinner Confession Malice Offending

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.”

Action Evil Loss Meditation Arms Gains Shame Prosperity Stillness Self Discipline Swallowing Coughing Gains And Losses

Author:Hakuin Ekaku

“Jung first gave us the term ‘shadow’ to refer to those parts of our personality that have been rejected out of fear, ignorance, shame, or lack of love. His basic notion of the shadow was simple: ‘the shadow is the person you would rather not be.’ He believed that integrating the shadow would have a profound impact, enabling us to rediscover a deeper source of our own spiritual life. ‘To do this,’ Jung said, ‘we are obliged to struggle with evil, confront the shadow, to integrate the devil. There is no other choice.’”

“When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.”

Feels Lying Evil Shame Deliberate

Author:Gautama Buddha

“You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!”; “The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them”; “God doesn’t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!”; and “If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper!”

“Be strong: we are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift, shun not the struggle, face it, 'tis god's gift. Be strong: say not the days are evil - who's to blame! And fold your hands and acquiesce - o shame! Stand up, speak out, and bravely in god's name. Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong. How hard the battle goes, the day, how long! Faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.”

Long Matter Hard Play Dream Hands Faces Song Fighting Evil Names Speak Strong Struggle Hard Work Tomorrow Battle Shame Blame Lifts Load Folds Speaks Out Life Struggle

Author:Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.”

“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.”

“If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.”

Ifs Evil Enemy Prove Shame

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.”

Feels Evil Causes Hours Loses Written Fool Morality Shame Neighbor Paradise One Hour

Book:Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer

Source: Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer

“Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.”

Done Evil Names Fire Cry Shame Flames Evil Things

Author:Bob Dylan

“There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.”

Men Pain Fall Evil Missing Wall Praying Window Shame Cleaning Ledges

Author:Pete Townshend

“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.”

“To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.”

Love Action Evil Kindness Virtue Activity Shame Deeds Harm Good Act

Book:Thirukkural

Source: Thirukkural

“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us... The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty...but are admirable in chastity...what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?" -Salvian”

Source: Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

“Shame keeps us immersed in our sin.”

Evil Sin Shame Guilt

Author:Allene vanOirschot

“The intensity of this cultural shame demanded a poster boy who would deter ‘bestial’ human behaviours and presentation, and so to the genesis of Satan, ‘the beast’ – a carnal, hairy, lascivious, malevolent, stinking satyr capable of taking sexually suggestive serpentine form: the humanising of the mammalian self.”

Christian Humanity Evil Christianity Shame Satan The Devil The Beast Abrahamic Religions Beelzebub

Book:Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

“Sacrifice is a necessary response to evil. You can only shame evil by showing them honor.”

Evil Sacrifice Honor Shame Response

Book:Leeway Cottage

Source: Leeway Cottage

“Si quelqu’un a volé, ou porté atteinte à autrui, ou même tué un autre homme, on envoie quérir la Clairvoyante. Car certains font le mal sans en ressentir aucune honte. Et nombre d’entre eux parviennent à cacher leurs scrupules au plus profond de leur conscience en se trouvant de multiples excuses. Ils vont parfois même jusqu’à se convaincre qu’ils étaient dans leur bon droit en commettant leur crime. Mais lorsqu’ils rencontrent la Clairvoyante, ils ne peuvent plus se cacher leurs méfaits ni les dissimuler aux autres. La plupart des hommes connaissent le repentir. Et quand il m’arrive de rencontrer quelqu’un qui n’en éprouve pas ou presque, je fais en sorte qu’il ressente une douleur. Car j’ai appris à utiliser ce don inhabituel qui est aussi le tien.”

Evil Justice Shame Remorse

Book:The Shamer’s Daughter

Source: The Shamer’s Daughter

“Uovu ni aibu kwa taifa zima!”

Evil Shame Nation Taifa Aibu Uovu

Author:Enock Maregesi

“Hasanati ni matendo mema. Mema yanatoka kwa Mungu. Mabaya yanatoka kwa Shetani. Mke mwema anatoka kwa Mungu. Mke mbaya anatoka kwa Shetani. Mke mwema ana hekima na busara, ana maadili na tabia njema, ana utu na uchapakazi, ana wema na upendo, na ana aibu kwa wanaume.”

“When basic human needs are ignored, rejected, or invalidated by those in roles and positions to appropriately meet them; when the means by which these needs have been previously met are no longer available: and when prior abuse has already left one vulnerable for being exploited further, the stage is set for the possibility these needs will be prostituted. This situation places a survivor who has unmet needs in an incredible dilemma. She can either do without or seek the satisfaction of mobilized needs through some "illegitimate" source that leaves her increasingly divided from herself and ostracized from others. While meeting needs in this way resolves the immediate existential experience of deprivation and abandonment. it produces numerous other difﬁculties. These include experiencing oneself as “bad” or "weak" for having such strong needs; experiencing shame and guilt for relying on “illegitimate” sources of satisfaction: experiencing a loss of self-respect for indulging in activities contrary to personal moral standards of conduct; risking the displeasure and misunderstanding of others important to her; and opening oneself to the continued abuse and victimization of perpetrators who are all too willing to selﬁshly use others for their own pleasure and purposes under the guise of being 'helpful.”

“Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don't consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here's a few clues that you're a cyber bully. (1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character. (2) You post threats to someone. (3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts. (4) You post any information intended to harm or shame another individual seeking to gain attention. Then, you are a cyber bully and need to get some help.”

Source: Sweet Destiny

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