“A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.” IfsWorldShouldHumansCountryStatesWould BeEarthHuman BeingsRaceDemocracyAliveExampleShameWaveCivilizedBurnedHumiliationLynching Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays
“Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.” DoeDoneActionLibertyExampleProduceShameIllContagiousGood ActionsEmulation Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.” MenKindDoeExampleShameIllDeedsLockedImitationContagiousLocked UpSpawnEmulation Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I'm of the old-fashioned opinion that shame can be used for all sorts of good in society. An example of this is smoking: When someone lights up around a crowd, people now usually say something. So I don't understand why it's not OK to apply the same logic to other behaviors.” PeopleLightUsedOpinionExampleBehaviorLogicShameCrowdsSmokingOld FashionedLight Up Author:Keli Goff
“The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.” PeopleMenRealGovernmentLawWealthRichWorstCrimeExampleBirthMadnessShameBoredBoredomFancyCowardiceProtectedDefectsWretchedMonstrousRich ManServerAberration Author:Jean Lorrain
“What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?” IfsMenRealLeftExampleMadnessMurderShamePunishmentDeath PenaltyDegradeCapital PunishmentReal Ones Author:Albert Camus
“Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.” PeopleMayLawCrimeExampleShameBe GoodGuidesPunishmentVoidCourtesy Book:THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.” TeacherWifeExampleFailureShameMy WifeOne LinerGreat OnesSuccess FailureAfraid Of Failure Author:Bernie Siegel