“One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.”
Source: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 76.
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American critic and writer 1904–1980Related quotes
“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.”
Of Truth
Essays (1625)
Context: There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge? Saith he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith, cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal, to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men; it being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth.
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“It’s a shame everyone is so afraid of sharks but we love our monsters.”
Source: Sean Daly Live at Shark Con-Julie Andersen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxL0X3uZIy0 (May 3, 2014)
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
“It’s time we moved the shame from victim to perpetrator. They’re the ones that should be ashamed.”
Source: https://www.entrepreneurs.ng/kiki-mordi/ Kiki Mordi speaking on sex for grades.
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter six, More is Less, p. 183