"Shame is a child of custom rather than of nature."

Shame, Custom, Society, Behavior

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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Shame, Emotion, Sensitivity, Pain

"She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overtook me as hidden things do. Secrets become lies. I'd carried in every step I took this lie, the shame of it."

Aspen Matis, American Author

Shame, Secrets, Trauma, Truth

"Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame."

Marian McPartland, English Musician

Shame,

"When you're ashamed of their action, to ask them the reason of their actions can make you a fool."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Shame, Action, Reason, Fool

"Shame comes in different doses."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

Shame, Emotion, Guilt, Humanity

"Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame."

Ronnie Spector, American Musician

Shame, Years

"It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from."

Mark Lawrence, British Novelist

Shame, War, Survival, Strength

"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Shame, Self, Family, Income

"Shame control us and our lives, it makes the choices we just state in spec and watch what's doing... as far as now it goes like a bot... auto!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Shame, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

Shame, Politics, Critique, Ideology, Cynicism

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"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"

Philosophy

"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."

Society

"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."

Wisdom

"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

Family

"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."

Philosophy

"A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas."

Philosophy

"Religion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man."

Religion

"Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind."

Education

"Death like style is the removal of rubbish."

Philosophy

"Grow strong, my comrade that you may standUnshaken when I fall; that I may knowThe shattered fragments of my song will comeAt last to finer melody in you;That I may tell my heart that you beginWhere passing I leave off, and fathom more."

Friendship