Ashamed Quotes

• An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Intelligent, Errors, Data

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• No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

  George McGovern

  Men, Advocating, Should

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• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Integrity, Men

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

  William Faulkner

  Life, Honesty, Now And Then

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• A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

  Confucius

  Deeds And Words, Gentleman, Would Be

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  Confucius

  Country, Countries Of The World, Government

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• It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Expectations, Words Of Wisdom

  'Great Expectations' (1861) ch. 14

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• If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Philosophy

  "Treasury of the Christian Faith: An Encyclopedic Handbook of the Range and Witness of Christianity". Book by Stanley Irving Stuber, Thomas Curtis Clark, Association Press, 1949.

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  Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Death, Badass

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1838). “Annual Report, Together with the Report of the Secretary of the Board: (1837-1841)”

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• Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Women, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.56, 谷月社

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• Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Ruins, Shame

  1953 'The Sense of Human Dignity', lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 Mar.

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• When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

  Tony Campolo

  Evil, Islam, Muhammad

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• I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

  Puff Daddy

  Congratulations, Target, Magazines

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• I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

  Jacques Derrida

  School, Long, Sickness

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.343, Stanford University Press

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• I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

  Ralph Ellison

  Grandmother, Grandparent, African American

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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• I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

  Eminem

  White, Glitter, Glamour

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• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Wise, Bad Ass

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.277, Vintage

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• Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

  Jean Genet

  Real, Men, People

  Jean Genet, Roger Blin (1969). “Letters to Roger Blin: reflections on the theater”

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• I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

  Elton John

  Drug, Machines, Facts

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• I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

  Alicia Keys

  Keys, Curves, Body

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• I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

  Amy Lee

  Spiritual, Band, Way

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• When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, People, Looks

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.76, Vintage

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• Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, Speak, Shame

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