Best shame & nations Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.”

Ifs Knows Names Nations Accepting Proud Capable England Shame France Beloved Germany Patriotism Accept Me Fatherland

Book:Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

Source: Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

“There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.”

I Can Nations Sin Shame Occasions Marrying Decree

Author:Boyle Roche

“God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.”

Ifs Heart Littles Two War Hands Age Humanity Nations Vision Broken Shame Wine Lips Chosen Carrie Rejoice Brutal Everlasting Vessel Crushed Barbarians Belgium Serbia

Author:David Lloyd George

“Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.”

Men Reason Age Individual Nations Degrees Prejudice Shame Trade Suspects Cherish Casting

Author:Edmund Burke

“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

“There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.”

Ifs Made War Whole Found Nations Sides Willing Shame Slavery West South East Empires Conspiracy East And West North And South

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?”

People Country Mother Nations Interest Common Wife Daughter Shame Guilt Partnership Citizenship Peril Liability Bereft Wife And Daughter

Book:On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

“What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons....The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.”

“For a nation to be known as warrior is a shame! For a nation to be known as peaceful is an honour! Violence brings shame, killing brings disgrace; peacefulness brings honour, nonviolence brings esteem!”

Nations Known Violence Shame Killing Esteem Peaceful Warrior Honour Nonviolence Disgrace Peacefulness

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.”

Source: War and Other Essays

“You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Two Nations Numbers Cases Rights Movement Gay Deserve Absolutes Shame Pro Life Basic Rights Travesty

Author:Jon Stewart

“Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?”

Art Country Matter Nations Support Pride Survival Understood Art Is Shame France Ireland Sweden Austria National Pride

Author:Theodore Bikel

“What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.”

Nations Eating Shame Developing Breakfast Bananas

Author:Edith Wharton

“Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.”

Wells America Nations Citizens Percent Shame Income Literal

Book:Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

“We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed limit sign and another looking at the speedometer - which is a bit of a shame, when you only have two eyes.”

People Two Eye Next Nations Bits Limits Shame Cameras Speed Clever Speed Limits Eyes Looking

Author:Paul Smith

“When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.”

Fall Nations Shame Guilt Faults Dues Regimes

Book:War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945

Source: War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945

“For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.”

“We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!”

Ends Matter Play Games Politics Lost Nations Pay Cost Shame Oppression Trifling

Book:The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

Source: The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

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