New York Times interview (1985)
“Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.”
“You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.”
Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
"Дмитрий Язов рассказал "РГ" о жизни маршала на пенсии" https://rg.ru/2013/12/05/marshal.html (4 December 2013)
“They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.”
"I, Too, Sing America," in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959)
“We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty.”
"Helen's Exile" (1948)
Context: We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
Concerning his affair with Edwina Currie http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2286008.stm.
1990s, 1997
“With them he linked his points of view, the convictions which he regarded as axiomatic.”
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.1 The Historical Roots of Christianity the Hebrew Prophets, p. 3
Context: To the ceremonial aspects of Jewish religion Jesus was either indifferent or hostile; the thought of the prophets was the spiritual food that he assimilated in his own process of growth. With them he linked his points of view, the convictions which he regarded as axiomatic.... The real meaning of his life and the real direction of his purposes can be understood only in that historical connection.
