There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price. — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. We… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Some people enjoy humiliation. Maybe I used to be one of those people, but I don’t feel humiliation anymore. The body sloughs… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
“I actually do have a motto,” said Heat. “It’s ‘Never forget who you work for.'" And as she voiced the words, Nikki… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“It's wrong to be ashamed of yourself. Presumptuous and stupid. I've made myself sick with shame, because I could feel so strongly… — Ebba Haslund Copy Share Image
The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us… — Caitlin Stasey Copy Share Image
There's something about taking emotional and career and relationship humiliations, writing them, acting them out again, but then redeeming them in some… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
“When he mentioned family, I could only think of my father, my real father, the Long Island janitor with the impenetrable accent… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Everyone always wants women to fight and it's a real shame that it undoes all the good that 'Loose Women' does. While… — Frankie Bridge Copy Share Image
Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief,… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame. — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Being # IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE # RIGHT WAY. — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You know policy is driven purely in self interest. The Federal Reserve Bank and the commercial banks and the Wall Street banks… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
“We need to talk about the hierarchy of grief. You hear it all the time—no grief is worse than any other. I… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“This transformation involves three dynamics: 1. The identification with shame-based models and the carrying of their unexpressed shame. 2. The trauma of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness. — William Golding Copy Share Image
We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I don't have shame around where I've been or what I've done to survive to get to where I'm at in my… — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Mae's first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that this was probably impractical.” — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cause shame was what we always felt, me and all my girlfriends, for expecting sex to breed complicity. ("Complicity is like a… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“I found out that “Shame is a reaction to other people’s criticism, an acute personal chagrin at our failure to live up… — Paul G. Hiebert Copy Share Image
