Class Quote by Norman Mailer

Shame has its place. Shame is what you do to a kid to stop them running on the road. And then you take the…

— Hannah Gadsby

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay…

— Brené Brown

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we…

— Milan Kundera

Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.

— Leslie Jamison

When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame…

— Robert Redford

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices…

— Anonymous

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as…

— Louis Kronenberger

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

— Mark McKinnon

Trump has no sense of shame.

— Colin Powell

“Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we…

— Aristotle

“A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human…

— Merle Fossum