“A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsMayMeanPersonsSpiritLyingFallSpeakStrongGrowsCausesActingSituationInfluenceBenefitsSightShameConvictionReactionsObjectivesLiberationConfused Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.” WantBelieveReasonPainHurtSituationExperienceAngerShameAngryGuiltUpsetAffectedNegativityHolding OnGlue Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when they made use of her, suggests an attempt to rationalize the situation; it might be explained as an unconscious transference to the woman of the shame they feel for themselves in these relations.” MenFeelsMadeFactsUseMightSituationRelationShameSuperiorsUnconsciousContemptProstitutionRationalizeTransference Author:Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
“It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.” TryingGovernmentPresidentDealsEffortSituationShameEmbraceDebtSpendingOperationsCeilingsDebt Ceiling Author:Mitch McConnell
“I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It might be healthier for us, and lead to a situation such as they enjoy in Holland, Denmark, or Spain, where they have pornography all over the place - quite hardcore pornography - but they do not have anywhere the incidence of sex crimes.” IfsThinkingMightSexEnjoySituationCrimeConnectionsShameCome UpSpainPornographyLiberatingHardcoreHollandDenmarkArousalIncidence Author:Alan Moore
“It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.” HumanityIndividualForgetSituationEventsHappeningsShameAimHorribleCurseTolerateShamefulInfamy Author:Rudolf Virchow
“We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"” ThinkingWantShouldBelieveEndsGuySituationShameExceptionLionsLooking BackBad GuysShame On Me Author:Taylor Swift
“FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and shame, about victims and perpetrators, about reasons, arguments and beliefs that led to the conflict in the first place, etc. All of this needed and still needs answering and ongoing discussions, but I mostly felt overwhelmed and unqualified to articulate anything worth more than personal experiences of the siege, of fear and refuge - all the things which I wrote about anyway.” NeedsFirstsStillsBookReasonUsePoliticalBeliefFeltSituationNeededConflictArgumentShameVictimGuiltDiscussionEtcRefugeOverwhelmedOngoingPersonal ExperiencesPerpetratorsSiegeUnqualifiedBosniaBerserk Author:Sasa Stanisic
“I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people have to watch DVDs with the lights on in a television-type situation where people are wandering in and out of the room. Movies are different from television, and you cannot watch movies like television. It distorts it.” PeopleMayIdeasDifferentLightFilmRoomsSituationWatchesTelevisionTypeShameScreensWanderDvdsWatch Movie Author:Oliver Stone
“To get out of desperate situation can only be done by education and by openness for Indonesians. Everybody who can, should be participating in this 'project'. Not only professional educators and teachers , but especially artists, creative people, thinkers. There should be many more initiatives, particularly more from the independent press! What happened to progressive independent publications in Indonesia? Nothing - they never took off! It is a shame.” PeopleDoneArtistSituationCreativeTeacherShameIndependentDesperateProgressiveOpennessThinkerInitiativeCreative PeopleEducator Author:Andre Vltchek
“And it struck me that talking about our financial situation is very much like men not wanting to talk about sexual impotence. It's just not something you do. It's an embarrassment. It's a shame. It's a humiliation.” MenSituationShameFinancialHumiliationEmbarrassment Author:Neal Gabler
“The urgency for me is to hurry up and become visible enough to either influence or shame other artists or corporations into understanding that there needs to be an equal starting block. You can't rush to make the changes. The rush that I have is to change the mindset of the people who can actually influence the situation in developed countries and in under - developed countries ... and not all under-developed countries need to develop. Maybe they just need to learn and be re - given the tools to understand how to use the land that they live on.” PeopleCountryEnoughArtistUnderstandingSituationInfluenceEqualShameMindsetBlockUrgency Author:Aloe Blacc
“I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.” ThinkingMenKindSituationLaughingEqualDifficultyShameElectionPresidentialDramaticPresidential Election Author:Ai Weiwei
“All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.” WantShouldSaidViewsResponsibilitySituationAcceptingDoubtShameFinalsTeethNo DoubtConfrontingFinal Words Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“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” CommunitySilenceSituationMilitaryMessagesShameInternationalBehaviourGazaInternational CommunityComplicityBurma Author:Desmond Tutu
“It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.” UnitedSituationShameManchesterSourManchester United Author:Paul Ince
“When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.” WayMomentsFeelingsMovingLevelsSituationCreativePossibilityLowsShameCurrentsExcuseMoving ForwardLazyRetreatPersistentCoveringRefiningLow LevelMaking ExcusesCurrent Situation Author:Epictetus
“Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.” MenWarIndividualForceSituationPromiseMurderShameFellowsEvery ManManhoodFellow Man Book:Civilisation, War and Death Source: Civilisation, War and Death