“Do not feel ashamed if the amount of charity is small because to refuse the needy is an act of greater shame.”

“I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.”

“I feel ashamed for all those in the government and in parliament who refuse to stop the Islamic invasion.”

“For anyone who feels our of place in the land of small dogs the only thing left is to become a big dog, and the only advantage in being a big dog is that one is not then ashamed of dying. Not even a big dog can help feeling shamed of living, a big dog least of all.”

“Do not feel ashamed to forgive and forget.”

“Politicians may initially find it difficult to accept new standards of public accountability, but we must make the costs of not doing so even greater. The best way to do this is by publicly embarrassing and shaming those officials and departments who refuse to answer to the public.”

“A: I think pain the greatest of all evils.
M: Greater than disgrace?
A: That indeed I dare not affirm; and yet I am ashamed to be so soon thrown down from my position.
M: It would have been a greater shame to have maintained it.”
A: Dolorem existimo maximum malorum omnium. M: Etiamne malus quam dedecus? A: Non audeo id dicere equidem, et me pudet tam cito de sententia esse deiectam. M: Magis esset pudendum, si in sententia permaneres.

“I'm not ashamed of anything I've done.
Shame is a useless emotion.”

“Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?”

“It’s time we moved the shame from victim to perpetrator. They’re the ones that should be ashamed.”