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“Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.”

Mind Shame Innocent Wicked Virtuous Infamous

Author:Thomas Sherlock

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

Source: Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian

“Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?”

Doe Self Shame Innocent Cruelty Loathing Self Loathing

Book:Merrick: a novel

Source: Merrick: a novel

“She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.”

Knows Littles Girl Secret Magic Missing Devil Shame Teeth Innocent Feathers Hollow Nagging

Book:Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

“You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.”

Thinking Giving Feels Moments Land Serious Pages Laughter Shame Harm Innocent Fancy Mirth Serious Things

Book:The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Source: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

“You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.”

Men Heart May Night Shame Lays Guilt Innocent Guilty Lifts Remorse

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community by justifying the killing of innocent people.”

People Community Duty Shame Killing Terrorism Innocent Fringe Our Community

Author:Iqbal Sacranie

“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

“Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?”

War Faces Time Blood Shame Fingers Killing Leaving Innocent Burning Divided Killers Erase Ruthlessness

Book:Pablo Neruda: selected poems

Source: Pablo Neruda: selected poems