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“As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.”

Ought Shame Ashamed

Author:Livy

“This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.”

Ifs Country Games Loses Products Ought Demand Fairs Shame Trade Producers Spine Backbone Rigged Fair Trade

Author:Byron Dorgan

“Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.”

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.”

Men Secret Ought Shame Every Man Vanity Folly

Book:Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

Source: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

“It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.”

People Thinking Problem Walks Sacrifice Economic Willing Ought Dignity Police Shame Police Brutality Brutality Disparity

Author:Al Sharpton

“But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end.”

Knows Way Doe Has Beens Ends Hands Seems Next Taken Too Much Worst Baby Ought One Day Window Shame Indifference Dependent Knots Annihilation Loops Recovering Huts Lanterns

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

“We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.”

Ifs May Book Sometimes Reason Reality Beautiful Ought Bible Shame Terror Versions Burning Dumb Get Away Association Biblical Sigh Solemn Adoration Tranquil Veneration Lulls Solemnity

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.”

Men Kind Soul Use Feelings Beautiful Used Kindness Produce Ought Comfort Quiet Shame Uplifting Abundance Sour Unkind Kind Words Morose Beautiful Images

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all guilty—we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business.”

People Kind Mean Whole Common Ought Involved Authority Reflection Shame Blame Trade Various Guilty Britain Description Throwing Parliament Wretched Great Britain

Author:William Wilberforce

“Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.”

Men World Certain Women Leadership Sweet Ought Intelligent Praise Hot Shame Revenge Sensitive Folly Trusted Be A Man Adjectives Ardent Erudite Epithet Androgynous

Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny

Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny

“The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.”

Courses Ought Comfortable Advantage Shame Pursuit Manners Our Time Exception Cynical Decline Restraint Aggravation

Author:J. Irwin Miller

“My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.”

Knows Happens Ought Shame Rage Ashamed

Author:Erich Maria Remarque