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" Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!. "

" Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. "

" A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. "

" After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once. "

" A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. "

" A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt... That is the big elephant in the room, but a part of why we're afraid to attack that subject matter is because of the way we've been taught about it. "

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

" A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. "

Isoroku Yamamoto

" Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination. "

Ryszard Kapuscinski

" Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this. "

" As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. "

" Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking. "

" 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. "

Bernard de Mandeville

" Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame. "

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

Phyllis Schlafly

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

" Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. "

" Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could. "

Gwyneth Paltrow

" Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? "

" Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach. "

" Don't let anyone shame you for what you read or what you love in general. Many people are gonna tell you not to do xyz things. "

" Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear. "

Julianna Baggott

" Doubt is the brother of shame. "

" Elections have consequences. So many people want to complain, but they don't want to vote. We can talk about Hillary Clinton. We can celebrate her; we can support her, but if we don't come out and vote for her, for shame. "

" Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. "

Jean de La Fontaine

" 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. "

" Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. "

" For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame. "

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