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“Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.”

People Men Needs Feels Helping Asks Weakness Shame Admission

Author:Rick Warren

“Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.”

People May Law Crime Example Shame Be Good Guides Punishment Void Courtesy

Book:THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

“It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant to be seen reading this year. It seems like those people aren’t really interested in books. If you’re really into books, you havoc all over the place picking up disparate stuff which you devour hungrily, and the ‘selection’ process is more like a sixth sense hunger, a billion miles away from fashion.”

People Ifs Years Book Seems Reading Stuff Process Fashion Waste Shame Hunger Billions Miles Newspapers Meant To Be Selection Supplements Miles Away Havoc Sixth Sense

Author:Steve Aylett

“Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.”

People Inspiration Motivation Race Talking Shame Privilege Paralyzed

Author:Brené Brown

“Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.”

People Thinking Want Able Havens Shame Get Away

Author:Carl Whitaker

“Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.”

People World Whole White Race Crime Destruction Shame Whole World Guilty Nazi Great People Breakdown White Race

Author:Bronislaw Huberman

“Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.”

People Writing Made Hard Games Loses Challenges Worry Impossible Scientist Shame Witty Clever These Days Frustration Doers

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame”

People Way Two War States Care Sorrow Shame Endless Burned Bullshit Egypt Pathetic

Author:Charlie Sheen

“Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.”

Source: Building A Character

“Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.”

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Author:William H. Ginsburg

“People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.”

People Ifs Country States Would Be Moving Hate Culture Asks United United States Missing I Hate Shame American Culture Foreign Countries Moving Back

Author:David Sedaris

“I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people. The Church's teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change.”

People Way Want Feels Years Reason Pain Young Certain Church Teaching Huge Broken Calling Shame Communicate God Love Isolation Abandon God Loves Me

Author:Vicky Beeching

“Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It's a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red As on our chests.”

People Knows Way Believe Important Feelings Bigs Rooms Know How Fronts Deserve Red Shame Admire Chests Big Things

Book:The Chronology of Water: A Memoir

Source: The Chronology of Water: A Memoir

“To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.”

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Author:John Henrik Clarke

“I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'”

People Way Beautiful Faces Shame Heavy Necks Compliment Questionable Beautiful Face Backhanded Compliments

Author:Kate Winslet

“Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.”

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Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him for yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.”

People Knows Self Jesus Opinion Judging Shapes Goodness Concepts Shame Rejects Righteousness End Times Spend Time Self Righteousness Prosecutor Goodness Of God Accusers

Book:Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

Source: Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.”

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Author:Virginia McKenna

“I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.”

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Author:Martha Wainwright

“As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.”

People World Turns Shame Reform

Author:E. W. Howe

“It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.”

People Shame Angry Ashamed

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.”

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Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.”

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Author:Evan Davis

“At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.”

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Author:Renee Fleming

“No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.”

People Art Media Solutions Shame Entertainment Selling Shirts Remorse T Shirt Retribution

Author:Don Henley

“It is a shame that most people jump to simple condemnation before considering working towards salvation.”

People Simple Society Shame Salvation Condemnation

Author:Isabella Poretsis

“Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don't consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here's a few clues that you're a cyber bully. (1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character. (2) You post threats to someone. (3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts. (4) You post any information intended to harm or shame another individual seeking to gain attention. Then, you are a cyber bully and need to get some help.”

Source: Sweet Destiny