Best shame & humans Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.”

Humans Emotion Quality Development Essentials Shame Guilt Noble Civilized Melancholy Elegant Refined Maintenance Human Potential Civilized Society Shame And Guilt

Author:Willard Gaylin

“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.”

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“It is not human to be without shame and without desire.”

Humans Desire Shame

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.”

Firsts Humans Feelings Hate Doubt Capable Negative Shame Guilt Males Zone Contempt Twilight Disgusting Trapped Halfway Disgrace Apes Twilight Zone Negative Feelings

Author:Valerie Solanas

“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.”

“"What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what we're doing at any given time. Every family has either a drug addict or an alcoholic or some sort of dysfunction that the family is dealing with. And I think the grace of this family is that they actually could be that far out there but also be forgiving, and be really human, and be human in front of each other without much shame.”

Thinking Humans Given Grace Fronts Drug Normal Shame Forgiving Addict Alcoholics Fooled Drug Addict Dysfunction

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.”

Way Believe Humans Long Ideas Facts Stories Together I Believe Taught Long Time Scientist Shame Species Driven Conclusion Narrative Human Experience

Author:Ann Druyan

“I have a lot of -- I struggle with a lot of shame over my past. There have been times when I've been incredibly embarrassed about the things that happened to me. I don't think that there is one human being in this world that would wish, you know, to be injured as a kid the way -- in ways that I was.”

Thinking Knows World Way Humans Has Beens Kids Past Wish Human Beings Struggle Happened This World Shame Embarrassed Injured Wish You My Past

Author:Traci Lords

“The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.”

Humans Differences Shame Contemporary Corporate Impulse Privacy Zeal Uniformity Instill

Author:John Perry Barlow

“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.”

Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

“Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.”

Source: Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

“laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.”

Humans States Emotion Democracy Special Emotional Pride Spring Laughter Bases Police Shame Democratic Oneself Crowds Expenses Willingness Procedures Aristocracy Police State Human Emotions

Author:Margaret Mead

“There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.”

Humans Two Virtue Human Nature Shame Restraint Reminders

Author:John Tillotson

“There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.”

Source: How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci

“Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you.”

Ifs Humans Book Hard Mistake Laughing Ignorance Masters Approach Clothes Shame Doctrine Ignorant Instruction Commodity Investigating Hard Words

Book:Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books

Source: Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books

“Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.”

Way Feels Humans Achieve Treats Shame Refuse Rejects No Hope Stigma Stature

Author:Germaine Greer

“I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Names Nations Felt Animal Dog Civilization Treats Shame Prosperity Extremes Income Cruelty Illegal Human History Percentages Unprecedented Affordability

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.”

Humans Shame Buttons Reset Reset Button

Book:Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water

Source: Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water

“The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.”

Trying Humans May Whole Quality Land Flower Duty Rain Shame Fruit Limitation Desert Cheerful Adaptation Offspring Tropical Flora

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

“Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!”

Humans Art Eye Grace Human Nature Shame Thee Decent Modesty Veils Statues Thyself Wraps Marble Offence

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Humans Has Beens Facts Spirit Suffering Sex Causes Subjects Human Nature Fit Waste Jokes Shame Instinct Silly Treated Expenses Misuse

Book:Sex and Common-sense

Source: Sex and Common-sense

“A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.”

Humans Heart Remember Reader Glory Shame Novelists Vastness

Author:Carolyn See

“Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.”

Humans Reason Respect Shame Divinity Humane

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“Showing a real human body and a woman who is looking at her body without shame - that alone is a radical notion. Showing a young woman who is honest about what she is experiencing and letting us into her most intimate, darkest thoughts, all of that is just promoting something that we don't get to see about young women.”

Humans Real Body Young Honest Shame Notion Radical Intimate Young Women Human Body Promoting Real Human

Author:Marielle Heller

“We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not taught how to speak to our difficulties and challenges. We're taught the Pythagorean theorem and chemistry and biology and history. We're not taught anger management. We're not taught dissolution of fear and how to process shame and guilt. I've never in my life ever used the Pythagorean theorem!”

“My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.”

Humans Done Earth Political Race Shame Human Race Posture

Author:Max Weinberg

“Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.”

Thinking Needs Should Mind Humans Has Beens Flower Should Have Shame Ashamed Human Mind Gardening Carpet Should Have Been Aberration

Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.”

Humans Children Matter Facts Body Natural Attitude Shame Our Children Guilt Developing Your Children Human Body Matter Of Fact Nudity Being Natural Nudists Shame And Guilt

Author:Lee Salk

“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

“Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.”

Humans Animal Shame Kingdoms Conception Animal Kingdom

Author:Justin Torres

“When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it aside after a while. To actually comprehend the human tragedy of these events is overwhelming. We see so many images, but there's always the sense, for Americans, that it's not in our backyard. That's another reason why the war in Bosnia was so fascinating; because it really was in Europe's backyard. It was in Europe. And they didn't do anything about it for years. It took the Americans to end that war, really. That's a shame.”

People Years Humans War Ends Reason Dying Car Events Goes On Europe Bases Tragedy Shame Iraq Reason Why Fascinating Overwhelming Brushes Bombing Backyards Bosnia People Dying

Author:Richard Shepard

“Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)”

Men Needs Humans Wells Body Able Natural Gay Shame Active Human Body Receptive Best Poem

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!"”

“Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians of our country's history. Unfortunately, in America, we, you know, lock those elders away out of view in nursing homes and go about our little lives. It's a great national shame and an irredeemable tragedy. Oh well.”

Knows Humans Wells Littles Country Home America Born Views Weak Tragedy Shame Our Country Locks Helpless Elders Guardian Nursing Oh Well Nursing Home

Author:Christopher Titus

“If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.”

Ifs Humans Persons Moments Realizing Ordinary Shadow Consequence Shame Encounters Concrete Burned Discomfort Hiroshima Complicity Ordinary Person

Author:Chris Abani

“I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.”

Thinking Men Should Humans Bits Human Beings Men And Women Shame Worthy Consistent Bitterness Angst Respect Each Other

Author:Delia Sherman

“The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.”

Humans Honest Truth Is Smart Training Shame Being Honest Scare Academic Storyteller Triggers

Author:Brené Brown

“It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.”

People Humans Has Beens Seems Causes President Party Race Ignorance Republican Members Hatred Vote Shame Species Greed Human Race Candidates Motivated Republican Party Short Sighted

Author:Allen W. Wood

“When the Pleiadians speak of letting go, they transmit a letting go energy through our energetic field. As a human being, we've been holding on for lifetimes, really holding on to the illusion strongly, holding on to the shame, the guilt, the sadness, all the things we've lived through, all the experiences we have allowed ourselves to create for ourselves in order to learn. We've held on to the pieces of us - the anger, the frustration and the pain.”

Humans Pain Order Energy Speak Human Beings Pieces Sadness Fields Letting Go Illusion Shame Guilt Lifetime Frustration Holding On Energetic Transmit

Author:Christine McCormick Day

“I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.”

Feels Humans Might Levels Fields Shame Keep Going Being Human Compelled Transparent Playing Fields Level Playing Field

Author:Alanis Morissette

“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

“We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.”

“Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.”

Humans Science Values Scientist Shame Ruins Appeals Ashamed Imaginative

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.”

Thinking Humans Stories Known Creative Shame Species Controlled Publishers Human Species Soulless

Book:How Precious Was That While

Source: How Precious Was That While

“I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap politician making a pretty speech? This is not what I intend to do... I believe in life, that it is sweet and that, for all its occasional bitterness, we-man, that is-are headed toward something better - fulfillment. There is much shame, however, and so much hypocrisy around us and these inhibit our fulfillment as human beings.”

Men Believe Humans Mother Humanity I Believe Sound Human Beings Mankind Sweet Politician Speech Shame I Believe In Fulfillment Hypocrisy Bitterness Preacher Occasional Something Better

Author:F. Sionil José

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

“Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.”

People Feels Humans Real Moments Might Eye Together Young Girl Fear Human Beings Animal Emotion Groups Shame Threat Remembered Insecurity Replaced Constraints Earthquakes Shyness

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame”

“Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.”

Humans Self Pain Suffering Emotion Regret Shame Pity Dread Humiliation Self Pity Human Emotions

Author:Michael Pollan

“Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.”

Humans Seems Might Today Process Sin Century Acceptance Strange Calling Shame Sexuality Human Life Historian Scholar Associates Cult Paganism Pagan Fertility Conceiving Classifying

Book:When God Was A Woman

Source: When God Was A Woman

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