Shame Quotes

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

When I can afford it, I'm very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it's a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.