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

Shame, Custom, Society, Behavior

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"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."

Whoopi Goldberg, American Actress

Shame, Vote

"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,

"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

"I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Shame, Mortality, Appearance, Humanity

"I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

Shame, Self-Awareness, Emotion, Growth

"It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do."

Shannon Hale, American Author

Shame, Power, Judgment, Social, Conflict

"I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

Shame, Identity, Isolation, Silence

"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Shame, Truth, Humanity, Privacy

"It's good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan."You only say that because you have no shame."

Leigh Bardugo, Israeli Author

Shame, Humor, Pride, Dialogue

"She told me that women who wore makeup had bad values. Putting on makeup would have been a statement-a rebellion. I didn't try it. I grew to feel guilty for wanting to feel attractive."

Aspen Matis, American Author

Shame, Beauty, Rebellion, Gender

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"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."

Truth

"There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away."

History

"No language has ever had a word for a virgin man."

Identity

"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

Family

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

Wisdom

"The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history."

Politics

"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."

Life

"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation."

Capitalism

"War does one good-it teaches people geography."

History

"Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one."

Society