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When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

Attachment Community Different Growth Home Language Parents See Shame Talk Yourself
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Animal Civilization Dog Feeling Illegal Name Nation Prosperity Shame Treat
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPER

Glory Guilt Inspirational Principle Selfish Shame War
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
SOPHOCLES

Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
THUCYDIDES

Call Honesty Man Proud Shame
Every day is a routine: you wake up, go to work or school, get tired, watch TV shows or read books, and then go to bed – and so on in a circle. Did you recognize yourself? It’s a shame because this is the wrong approach.
MARIYA FEDULOVA

Approach Book Motivational Reading Routine School Shame Television Wake Up
It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Day Drink Eat Eight Hour Make Man One Shame Thing Work
Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
J. C. RYLE

Identity Religious Shame Thinking
Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
JOHN CALVIN

Book Learning Religious Satisfaction Shame True Understand
I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Ability Aware Crime Discrimination Early Energy Episode Life Major Mom Myself Point Sexual Shame
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
NORM MACDONALD

Philosophy Reason Shame Virtue
There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
BETH DITTO

Bitter Charming Shame
It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
POPE LEO XIII

Human Man Money Myself Power Regard Shame Treat
Living with scars caused by self harm is not a shame.
LARA-LEAN

Live Scars Self Harm Shame
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Appeasement Blackmail Instance Mean Peace Shame Successfully Violence
I was more ashamed that I couldn’t work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.
ELTON JOHN

Drugs Fact Myself Shame Work
I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
A. J. JACOBS

Cause Dignity Identity Image Little Name Reward Shame Think
My entire life people have told me about my sexuality. People have shamed me for things they know nothing about. I want to say thank you to those of you who stand for love and acceptance.
JOSHUA BASSETT

Acceptance Hater Life Love People Shame
Its about time we shine without shame.
SONYA MATEJKO

Acceptance One Liner Shame Shine Time
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
TACITUS

Crowd Enemy Flattery Kind Laugh One Liner Over Shame
But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
AL-SHAFI'I

Admonish Disgrace Publicity Recognize Shame Sincere
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.
BRENNAN MANNING

Gift Grace Guilt Imagination Reality Shame
I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
AFENI SHAKUR

Himself Myself Right Shame
If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.
AL-SHAFI'I

Among Dishonor God Other Outward Shame

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