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Shame
«It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.»
Author: Fred Woodworth
| About:
Shame,
War
| Keywords:
civilians, combat, trash, unneeded, wonderfully
«If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame»
Author: Ugo Betti
(Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Feelings,
Shame
| Keywords:
Say Any, sense of shame, sentiment, tender
«A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.»
«Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.»
«Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart,- yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes»
«Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Pride,
Shame
| Keywords:
achieves, attaches, automatically, esteemed, estimation, estimations, highly, humiliation, humiliations, inferior, involved, losing, rating, ratings, sets, shame, status, superiority, undue
«The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows»