Best Shameful Sayings
208 Shameful quotes by 176 unique authors
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We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and…
— Pope Pius XI
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Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful and balanced account…
— Unknown Author
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It is shameful that there are so few women in science In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in…
— Chien-Shiung Wu
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For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous…
— Polybius
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Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a…
— Harry Browne
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Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost self-sacrifice,…
— Unknown Author
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Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture…
— Kofi Annan
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Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to…
— Scott Anderson
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To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history…
— John Quincy Adams
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I am a trans woman. My sisters are trans women. We are not secrets. We are not shameful. We are worthy of respect, desire, and…
— Janet Mock
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Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply…
— Bill Pascrell
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I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so…
— Mark Twain
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It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.
— Noam Chomsky
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The Libertarian Party is a shameful party
— Dennis Prager
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If... God highly exalted Christ because He humbled Himself, suffered dishonour, was tempted and endured a shameful cross and death for our sake, how will…
— Gregory Palamas
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This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government…
— Pierce Brosnan
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The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer.
— Adolf Hitler
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
— Garry Kasparov
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be…
— Plato
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We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful…
— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
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