Shame Quotes - Page 32

• From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Suicide, Grief, Perspective

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.591, Duke University Press

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• As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

  L. E. Maxwell

  Firsts, Christ, Crosses

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• I have a lot of -- I struggle with a lot of shame over my past. There have been times when I've been incredibly embarrassed about the things that happened to me. I don't think that there is one human being in this world that would wish, you know, to be injured as a kid the way -- in ways that I was.

  Traci Lords

  Struggle, Kids, Past

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• I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.

  Susannah Constantine

  Girl, Self, Frustrated

  "Acne, alcohol ... and non-stop sex" by Lynda Lee-Potter, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 6, 2003.

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• But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

  Emilia Lanier

  Weakness, Might, Faults

  1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

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• People of the cross? A symbol of shame has become our confidence.

  Stephen Nichols

  People, Crosses, Symbols

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• The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

  John Perry Barlow

  Differences, Privacy, Impulse

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• It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Fall, Hero

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

  John McCain

  Country, Party, Practice

  "Sen. John McCain Attacks Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Republican Establishment as Harming GOP Ideals". transcripts.cnn.com. February 28, 2000.

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• Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Memories, Prayer, Children

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• Shame must be accepted to be effective.

  Seth Godin

  Accepted

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• A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Country, Race, Lynching

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.352, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Christian, Blessing, Names

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.

  Pierre Bayle

  Stars, Lying, Miscarriage

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• A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed a vessel with sweet wine For thirsty lips. So down the swift decline You went through sloven spirit, craven heart And cynic indolence. And here the art Of molding clay has caught you for the nonce And made your shame our shame ~ Your head in bronze!

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Sweet, Art, Wine

  Edgar Lee Masters, “On A Bust”

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• We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Sacrifice, Men

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• The Romneys have a horse competing in the Olympics. Ann Romney's horse failed to win a medal in the dressage event today, which is a shame because if there's one thing that family needs, it's more gold.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Horse, Winning

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• All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Golf, Iron, Guarantees

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• It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent.

  Jack Hunter

  People, Worried, Decent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh.

  Nas

  Rap, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

  Dylan Moran

  Aphrodisiac, World, Built

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.

  David Copperfield

  Thinking, Magic, Acting

  "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.

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• I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.

  Benjamin Carson

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Dr. Ben Carson: Health Care Is 'Upside-Down'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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• Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission

  Warsan Shire

  Girl, Hurt, Sorry

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• Shame is the root of all addictions.

  John Bradshaw

  Roots, Addiction

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