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Ashamed Quote by Jean Genet

“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.” quote by Jean Genet — Download Open image

“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.”

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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

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“They made comments about the women's legs, but, as they were not witty, their remarks had no finesse. Since their emotion was not torn…

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“Thereafter, he ennobled shame. He bore it in my presence like a burden, like a tiger clinging to his shoulders, the threat of which…

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I decided to be what crime made of me,

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Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil…

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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it…

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.

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I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

Robert Green Ingersoll

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You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.

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There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no…

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There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

James Weldon Johnson

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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for…

Friedrich Nietzsche

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You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.

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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I…

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

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