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The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children — Ban Ki-moon
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men,… — Hippocrates
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. — Curtis Sittenfeld
Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn… — Ayn Rand
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful,… — Sebastian Junger
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association… — H. L. Mencken
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of… — Louis Kronenberger
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to… — Pauline Kael
The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me. — Ralph Peters
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful. — George Takei
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of… — J. Irwin Miller
I think that being bullied is a shameful experience. — Carolyn Mackler
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you… — Cyrano de Bergerac
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no… — Terry Eagleton
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two… — Howard Dean
I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To… — Nick Flynn
The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning. — David Hackworth
I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near… — Adele
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted… — Frederic Farrar
The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a… — Milovan ?ilas
The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of… — Samuel Johnson

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