Shame Quotes - Page 40

• Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

  Luqman

  Teaching, People, Four

  84 Copy quote

• No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

  Martha Beck

  Self Esteem, Giving, Today

  4 Copy quote

• Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.

  William Morris

  Flower, Thinking, Should Have

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

  Neil Tennant

  Hate, Real, Moving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.

  John Locke

  Loss, Jewels, Care

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.559

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

  John Wesley

  Writing, Years, Seven

  'Journal' 1 September 1778

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.

  Thomas Campbell

  Stars, Mean, Two

  Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.340, Ardent Media

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

  Edward Young

  Suicide, Wings, Soul

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.103

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

  Edward Young

  Men, Light, Torches

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.271

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Men, Vices

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.13

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors.

  John Adams

  Real, Long, Liberty

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila”, p.11, Jazzybee Verlag

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, Thinking, Connections

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

  Alan Moore

  Dark, Imagination, Healthy

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

  Danger Mouse

  Long, Realizing, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

  Claude Lelouch

  Character, Perfect, Painful

  Source: www.indiewire.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.

  Tucker Carlson

  Moral High Ground, Iraq, United States

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

  Sam Keen

  Good Night, Hands, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Margaret Cho

  People, Silence, Routine

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The worst pain in the world is shame.

  Fiona Apple

  Pain, World, Worst

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.

  Robert Redford

  Balance, Tools, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Igor Stravinsky

  Silence, Fame

  4 Copy quote

• Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dirty, Feet, Veins

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Humanity, Events, Forget

  52 Copy quote

• The best way for business to move out of the Hall of Shame is to demonstrate a commitment to social causes. This also makes business sense. A focus on solving social problems has motivational benefits in lean economic times.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Moving, Commitment, Focus

  4 Copy quote

• Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.

  Lee Salk

  Attitude, Children, Guilt

  43 Copy quote