Infamous Quote by Thomas Sherlock

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but…

— Denis Diderot

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

— Sophocles

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

— Plutarch

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the…

— Brené Brown

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of…

— Sharon Salzberg

“So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed…

— Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I have learned that for me, shame is like kryptonite. It was utterly destructive, a boot on my neck for most of my life.…

— Laura Parrott Perry

I never wonder to see man wicked , BUT I often wonder not to see them Ashamed ..

— Melchor Lim

“Like priests with their backs to the world and their faces to the altar, the postmodern protectors of shame need to turn around, face…

— Wesley J. Wildman

“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

“In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics—making things more symmetric. Banishment and exile, or,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb