"He who is ashamed would like to force……" — Erik Erikson
"He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world."
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25 Quotes by Erik Erikson
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent…
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Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family…
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The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is…
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Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
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Personality, too, is destiny.
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Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of…
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Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for…
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You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child…
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is…
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The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
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We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
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More Ashamed Quotes
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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is…
— Richard Bach
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough.…
— Mary J. Blige
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer…
— John Abbott
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It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
— Emily Blunt
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to…
— Jacob Bronowski
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When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be…
— Tony Campolo
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
— Noam Chomsky
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take…
— Louie Anderson
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