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“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?”

Ifs Men Real Left Example Madness Murder Shame Punishment Death Penalty Degrade Capital Punishment Real Ones

Author:Albert Camus

“When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel and empty mockery. If not remedied, the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come. We cannot let it continue.”

Source: Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences

“Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early death for sorrow. Success is not for him to be pround of, failure is no shame. Had he all the world's power he would not hold it as his own. If he conquered everything he would not take it to himself. His glory is in knowing that all things come together in One and life and death are equal.”

Ifs World Life Long Eye Together Life Is Joy Wealth Knowing Failure Honor Sorrow Equal Glory Gains All Things Shame Possession His Eyes Life And Death Goods Long Life Early Death

Author:Zhuangzi

“If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.”

Ifs Emotion Optimism Shame Confusion Pessimism Sheer Embarrassment

Author:Stephen Fry

“What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.”

Ifs Doe Truth Together Speak Risk Shame

Author:Starhawk

“No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.”

Ifs Persons Matter Causes Lines Shame

Author:Nabeshima Naoshige

“If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.”

Ifs Fool Lessons Thirds Shame Trusted Deceiving Deceived Compounds Third Time Shame On You Shame On Me

Author:Olusegun Obasanjo

“In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.”

Ifs Life Wells Pain Names Causes Pleasure Wind Glory Shame Endure Deeds Worthy Vain Void Fades Reign Foul

Book:Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Minor Contemporaneous Poets, and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst

Source: Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Minor Contemporaneous Poets, and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst

“Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.”

Ifs Made Wealth Pleasure Horse Shame Command Woe Horsemen

Author:Dorothy Parker

“I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.”

People Ifs Believe Doe Country Would Be Eye Used Cities Modern Couple Shame Filled Atmosphere Obsessed Penetrate Modern Life Oklahoma Looking Down Unwelcome Life Living Living In The City

Author:Adam Duritz

“When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.”

Ifs Girl Boys Shame Get Away Pregnant

Author:Bill Cosby

“The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. I'd probably end up punching them in the face rather than shaking their hand, so it's best that I stay out of their way. I can't engage with that level of bullshit. Which is a shame, really, and in a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from it smelling of roses.”

People Ifs Way Want I Can Ends Facts Helping Hands Faces Differences Walks Levels Shame Rose Very Good Admire If I Could Bullshit Shaking Punching

Author:Thom Yorke

“Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.”

Ifs Men Looks Doe Facts Light Bits White Race Mankind Members Benefits Glory Shame Impression Magnificent White Man Laboratory Doers White Race

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on as plainly as we can speak, and tell them of their sin, and shame, and misery: and we expect, not only that they should bear all patiently, but take all thankfully, and we have good reasons for all this; and most that I deal with do take it patiently... But if we speak to a godly minister against his errors or any sin... if it be not more an applause than a reprehension, they take it as an injury almost insufferable.”

Ifs Men Should Reason Speak Sin Deals Conditions Bears Shame Lays Misery Errors Ignorant Ministers Injury Godly Disgrace Applause Drunkards Insufferable

Author:Richard Baxter

“If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.”

Ifs Doubt Shame

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.”

Ifs Kind Reason Would Be Certain Dies Generations Ready Pride Bears Pure Shame Sacred Guilt Affair Innocent Carrie Pregnancy Disgrace Ready To Die Cancellation Without A Trace

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.”

“And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Lasts Justice Virtue Source Shame Aim Constant Ancestor Plato Cunning Exceed Absorbing Firsts And Lasts Source Of Happiness

Book:The Complete Plato

Source: The Complete Plato

“The sunset looks beautiful over the projects... What a shame, it ain't the same where we stand at. If you look close, you can see the bricks chipped off. Sometimes niggas miss when they lick off.”

Ifs Looks Sometimes Beautiful Missing Projects Shame Hip Hop Rap Sunset Bricks

Author:Prodigy

“Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.”

Ifs Doe Able Sound Teaching Serious Integrity Shame Opponents Exception Thought Provoking Yield Provoking Hostility

Author:Paul the Apostle

“I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Trying Years Real Age Today Asks Answers Clear Our Lives Tomorrow Hundred Shame

Author:Jack Antonoff

“I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame, or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat. I want to see you guys high-five each other like teammates on a recreational softball team you both do for fun.”

“I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there's no mystery. No privacy. And no sex, either. Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.”

People Ifs Needs Looks Today Hate Sex Mystery Expression I Hate Shame Individuality Boring Screens Admire Cinema Upset Privacy Censorship Sophisticated Hostility Nudity

Author:Myrna Loy

“The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

Ifs Want Needs Desire Grief Sadness Regret Broken Higher Hatred Shame Calm Rage No Fear Fury No Regrets Hold Me No Anger Live Without Fear

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.”

Ifs Men Humans Past Spiritual Dark Forget Effort Divine Shame Unreliable Forget The Past

Book:Autobiography of a Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.”

Ifs Guy Sleep Fields Color Shame Lips Bulls Bicycle Gloss No Sleep Lip Gloss

Author:Tori Amos

“You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.”

Ifs Knows Needs Important Company Five Shame Customers Unhappy Lasting Five Friends

Author:Jeff Bezos

“Cats do what cats do, ducks do what ducks do, and eagles do what eagles, do. If you take a duck and ask it to do an eagles' job, shame on you. As a leader, your job is to help your ducks to become better ducks and your eagles better eagles - to put individuals in the right places and help them reach their potential.”

Ifs Helping Motivational Jobs Asks Individual Leadership Leader Cat Shame Ducks Eagles Right Place Shame On You

Book:The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs

Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.”

People Ifs Self Matter Artist Individual Black Dark White Shame Glad Dark Skinned

Book:Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

Source: Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

“We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.”

People Ifs Feels Hard Body Choices Fun Interest Judging Areas Weight Shame Folks Appearance Feel Good Vulnerable Deficiency Pads Judging Others Launching I Feel Good

Author:Brené Brown

“If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.”

Ifs Needs Three Grows Silence Amount Judgment Empathy Shame Ingredients Dishes Secrecy

Author:Brené Brown

“When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.”

People Ifs Should Happens Easy Rooms Mistake Shame Blame Arise Repeats Senior Mantras Mistakes Happen

Book:The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Source: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist raised communist educated communist nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.”

“It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes to our shores, and thereby create desire and with it shame for that desire. Indeed, it is worse still than that: Precisely because we worry publicly that we are insensitive, our enemies scoff privately that we in fact are too sensitive - what we think is liberality and magnanimity they see as license and decadence. If we don't have confidence in who we are, why should they?”

“If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.”

Ifs Suffering Enjoy Sadness Sorrow Shame Guilt Enjoy Your Life Shame And Guilt

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!”

Ifs Behinds Mistake Focus Right Now Shame Who You Are Guilt Release Hiding Apology Beating Yourself Beating Yourself Up

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.”

“One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things should be done. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.”

People Ifs Way Want Needs Giving Should Two States Done Jesus Causes Christ Opinion Saws Trouble Willing Masters Bears Giving Up Jesus Christ Shame Humble Indifference Ashamed Revival Reproach

Author:Mordecai Ham

“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!”

“If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.”

Ifs Want Book Philosophy Spiritual Science Lying Can Do Justice Morality Okay Opposites Shame Atheist Recognition Behave Preaching Cheat Agnostic Decency Mafia

Author:Dennis McKinsey

“It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.”

Ifs Sides Loses Football Shame Soccer Both Sides Commentators Funny Soccer

Author:Jock Brown

“Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.”

Ifs Should Long Sometimes Deals Skins Stress Shame Majority Starting Disappointment Willingness Thick Thick Skin Starting A Business Long Road

Author:Kathryn Minshew

“If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.”

Ifs Men Shame Everest Mount Everest Climbing Mount Everest

Author:Tenzing Norgay

“You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.”

Ifs Want Hard Work Achieve Hard Work Shame

Author:Euripides

“Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in imprudently accustoming them to live hardly clothed and in making them lose the sense of modesty, you should be ashamed of yourselves and of the harm done the little ones whom heaven entrusted to your care, to be reared in Christian dignity and culture.”

Ifs Should Littles Done Care Christian Mother Culture Heaven Loses Son Daughter Dignity Shame Ill Harm Ashamed Modesty Distress Peril Your Son Son And Daughter If Only You Knew

Author:Pope Pius XII

“Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you? When no one is looking, I check to see if anyone seems as scared as me, or lonely, or shy, or insecure. Is it just me? I'm not so sure. Is your heart an onion too? Show me yours, I'll show you mine we used to say. Your turn. Peel away.”

Ifs Looks Heart Sometimes Shows Seems Used Turns Emotional Mines Wall Lonely Shame Brave Scared Checks Shy Show Me Insecure Onions Admission Dislocation

Author:Nikki Grimes

“But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.”

Ifs Love Soul Dies Born Share Love You Danger Shame Guilt Be Good Anguish Lad Born To Die

Author:A. E. Housman

“Children learn what they live. If a child lives with criticism... he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility... he learns to fight. If he lives with ridicule... he learns to be shy. If he lives with shame... he learns to be guilty. If he lives with tolerance... he learns confidence. If he lives with praise... he learns to appreciate. If he lives with fairness... he learns about justice”

Ifs Children Fighting Justice Appreciate Criticism Praise Shame Tolerance Guilty Shy Fairness Ridicule Hostility Learn To Appreciate

Author:Dorothy Nolte

“It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.”

Ifs Process Becoming Shame Jazz Fruit Defined Verbs Idiom

Author:Pat Metheny

“Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you think you are?' Shame always has a seat.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Feelings Doubt Shame Seats Feeling Pretty Gremlins

Author:Brené Brown

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