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“Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last; it is less shame for a virgin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence.”

Firsts Lasts Purpose Found Lost Causes Silence Shame Violent Virgins Eloquence Blushing Good Causes

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.”

Ifs Self Silence Quiet Judgment Shame Tolerate Crave Secrecy

Author:Brené Brown

“Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.”

Silence Advantage Shame Misfortunes Allies Speakers Accused

Author:Sophocles

“The label of tasteful or tasteless is so often used to silence people and to maintain the status quo. It's used to shame people for not following the commonly accepted routine, for not aligning themselves with the status quo.”

People Used Silence Shame Following Accepted Labels Routine Status Quo

Author:Margaret Cho

“Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.”

Silence Fame Shame

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."”

People Thinking Kind Mean Different Enough Silence Growing Up Missing Ignorance Shame Guilt Silent Sexuality All Kinds Stereotype Secrecy

Author:Esther Perel

“When I was hospitalized in 1992 with severe clinical depression I thought I was the only one. I didn't know of one other Christian struggling with any form of mental illness. What I didn't know then was that there are thousands and thousands of men and women who love God yet are struggling alone, in silence, full of shame. This has to end. It's time to shine the brightest light into the darkest corners of the church”

Men Christian Church Silence Struggle Men And Women Shame Shining Illness Mental Illness God Love

Author:Sheila Walsh

“Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.”

Grief Silence Shame Silence Is Secrecy Majesty

Author:Melina Marchetta

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."”

Silence Grace Shame Confusion Betrayed

Author:Barack Obama

“My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma”

Community Silence Situation Military Messages Shame International Behaviour Gaza International Community Complicity Burma

Author:Desmond Tutu

“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

“Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.”

Mean Simple Secret Silence Cases Roots Shame Lifts Greek Apocalyptic Articulation Uncovering

Book:Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art

Source: Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art

“The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that they were. There is no other incident--beyond Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty--that shows the power of the Israeli Lobby by being able to silence successive American governments. Allowing the lies told by the Israelis and their minions in the U.S. is disheartening to all of us who are proud of our servicemen.”

Shows Government Able Lying Silence Liberty Enemy Proud Hero Shame Treated Allowing Patriot Incidents Israeli Sailor American Government Minions Servicemen Disheartening

Author:James Abourezk

“That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.”

Silence Goes On Shame Protected Life Goes On

Book:The Light Between Oceans

Source: The Light Between Oceans

“Authentic love does not devalue another human being. Authentic love does not silence, shame or abuse. If you are in a relationship with someone who does not honor and respect you, I want you to know that you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help. Your voice will save you. Let it extend into the night, let it part the darkness. Let it set you free to know who you truly are - valuable, beautiful, loved.”

“The reality is, no matter what you were told, whatever happened to you as a child was not legally or morally your fault. Abused children are instilled with guilt regarding their "participation." It's an especially complex issue if the abuser is a family member. The child is told and believes that by his word his family will disintegrate, or harm may descend upon other loved ones. He fears he will lose more by telling than not.”

Fear Silence Lies Shame Blame Guilt Breakup Child Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Pedophile Victim Blaming Self Blame Child Abuser

Book:Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

Source: Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder