Quotes About Shame

It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality.

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

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

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

It is like confessing to a murder.

I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.

Sin is shameful action.

What starts out as an intrusive thought can turn into an overwhelming concept if we "feed" it with more negative thinking. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.

Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.