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Mencius, born Meng Ke or Ko NULL
No person is without sense of compassion, or a sense of shame, or a sense of courtesy, or a sense of right and wrong. The sense of compassion is the beginning of humanity; the sense of shame is the beginning of righteousness; the sense of courtesy is the beginning of decorum [li]; the sense of right and wrong is the beginning of wisdom. Every person has within him these four beginnings; just as he has four limbs.
Beginning | Compassion | Courtesy | Humanity | Right | Righteousness | Sense | Shame | Wisdom | Wrong |
Our flag stands for "liberty and justice for all." Our flag must never be misused or defiled as a bandana for war crimes, as a gag against the people's freedom of speech and conscience or as a fig leaf to hide the shame of charlatans in high public office, who violate our Constitution, our laws and our founding fathers' framework for accountable, responsive government.
Conscience | Freedom of speech | Freedom | Government | Justice | Liberty | Office | People | Public | Shame | Speech | War |
Philip Sidney, fully Sir Philip Sidney
In shame there is no comfort, but to be beyond all bounds of shame.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
Where fear is, shame is.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities. It’s a shame to waste those by doing what someone else has done.
Livy, formally Titus Livius, aka Titus Livy NULL
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
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.
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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