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“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

“I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”

Home Light Mother Night House Black White Pay Morning Color Months Understood Paid Shame Bills Shoes Coming Home Uniforms Dirt All Night Mama Specks Morning After New Work

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. (“Cafe Endless: Spring Rain”)”

Self Worship Spring Understood Rain Tradition Dignity Shame Endless Awe Vitality Being There Cafes Exaltation Spring Rain

Author:Nancy Holder

“I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.”

Humans May Has Beens Facts Felt Imagination Differences Building Activity Understood Shame Green Glasses Parks Tall Avenues Collecting Human Imagination Figments

Author:Jennifer Egan

“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”

Ends Understood Shame Selfishness Cowardice Noli Me Tangere

Author:Jose Rizal

“We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.”

Self Fall Causes Levels Self Esteem Understood Shame Various Esteem Height Ashamed

Book:Commentaries on Living 2

Source: Commentaries on Living 2

“How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?”

Desire Motivation Empathy Understood Shame Intensity

Book:Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

Source: Insult and the Making of the Gay Self