Quotes About Shame

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

It is a shame and the moral bankruptcy of the Congress that its leaders, who were at the forefront of the freedom struggle and fought against foreigners, should think of having a foreigner as the Prime Minister.

I'd say for sure though, read the fine print in the contract. Make sure after you defend your belt for however many times and then you lose, you're not making less money than a kid who had three fights in the UFC. That's a shame. That's laughable. That is a shame.

America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who goes to prison, who don't go to prison.

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

Growing up, my experience with transsexualism was nothing but shame. It was something very hidden, and dealt with very privately.

There are so many things I've done that I'm glad I've done privately because it's so embarrassing just anyway.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

We so often tend to think our democracies are ruled by procedures and laws, but they are also governed by implicit rules and assumptions and one of them is the ability to feel shame - that you can be shamed.

Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.

One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we're ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It's as simple as that. We're all in pain in different ways, and we don't get the help we need because we're too ashamed to talk about the pain.

I've made a career out of being able to talk about difficult things, and that comes from growing up in an environment where nothing was embarrassing.

I have never played a Test match at the Eden... It's such a big shame and disappointment.

There has been great progress made in the world, but the fact that we're still fighting against discrimination means we've gone backwards and that's a shame.

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Pedicures are disgraceful.

Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret.

When I got done at Duke, I almost felt ashamed of it. I almost tried to distance myself from being the Duke guy.

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

Things that you might be embarrassed to tell a group about yourself - honestly, that's probably what the majority of the group is experiencing are those things that you keep quiet in your heart.