Quotes About Shame

They had understood that Paris must be abandoned, so as to save it from destruction. But to surrender, to turn all France over to the boches, to desert Britain and give up the promised aid from America?—c'était la honte, la trahison! Some stood with tears running down their cheeks. Lanny thought, it was as he had said to Kurt, the French body had been separated from the head, and the body was paralyzed.

Many of them couldn't fathom how Germany could have lost this war against the world, and they kept speculating about conspiracies and malicious forces that had brought about the shame of their defeat.

I've read the stories. Teenagers committing suicide because all they can see ahead of them is shame and disgrace. Kids running away from home because they feel like they've list their future. Well, I'm not having that happen to Torin.

One of the hardest things we have to do is learn to take responsibility for our own actions. Trying to sidestep actions that deep down we know are shameful is a powerful instinct. From Reading Crimes by DR TONY HILL

Throughout the years, I have observed that participants who voluntarily become involved in unofficial dialogues with the enemy are seen to some degree as traitors by those in their own community who are against all communication with the enemy. These participants may also experience shame for talking with the enemy, which is intensified if and when the enemy carries out some violent act while the talks are going on.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing.

Ignominy thirsts for respect.

Ignominy thirsts for consideration.

Monsieur to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea. Ignominy thirsts for respect.

S'è detto che la schiavitù è sparita dalla civiltà europea: errore! Esiste sempre, ma pesa soltanto sulla donna e si chiama prostituzione. Pesa sulla donna, ossia sulla grazia, sulla debolezza, sulla beltà, sulla maternità. E questa non è già una delle minori vergogne dell'uomo.

Elsa felt a deeply rooted shame in her daughter's rejection. In her hurt, she did what she'd always done: she disappeared. But all the while, she waited, prayed, that both her husband and her daughter would someday see how much she loved them and they would love her in return. Until then, she dared not push too hard or demand too much.

Alaska brings out the best and the worst in a man. Maybe if you'd stayed Outside you never would have become who you are now. I know about 'Nam, and it breaks my heart what you boys went through. But you can't handle the dark, can you? It's nothing to be ashamed of. Most folks can't. Accept it and do what's best for your family.

Fear made you run and hide and shame made you stay quiet

It embarrassed Isabelle that he felt the need to say this to her, and in front of everyone.

It's not my fault

They both knew better. It was something to be ashamed of. Americans weren't supposed to take handouts from the government. They were supposed to work hard and succeed on their own.

Elsa was condemned as either a liar or a loose woman or both.

shame that was its silent twin.

her mother's fear, and the shame that was its silent twin.

Your boy has ruined my daughter, Tony. She's expecting." Elsa saw the way Mrs. Martinelli's face changed at that, how the look in her eyes went from kind to suspicious. An appraising, judging look in which Elsa was condemned as either a liar or a loose woman or both

And they were ashamed to need anything from the government. From anyone, really. Like her, they'd always worked for what they needed, not relied on the government for a handout.

Starting in the 1970s, the Friedman Doctrine and its extrapolations freed and encouraged businesspeople and the rich to go ahead and conform to the left-wing caricatures of them, to be rapacious and amoral without shame.

It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.