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«There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.»

Author: Howard Zinn (Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor) | About: Politics, War | Keywords: cover, covered up, cover for, cover up, flag, flagging, Flag of, innocent, innocents, innocent of, killing, killings, large, On the Cover, shame, shamed, shames, shaming

«I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.»

Author: Joshua Logan | About: Defeat, Limits, Reality | Keywords: bounds, caught up, shaming

«There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.»

Author: Russian Proverb | Keywords: finding, findings, knowing, lay out, lies, no., no, out, shame, shamed, shames, shaming, there is, There is no

«Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.»

Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Ignorance, Learning | Keywords: ignorant, shame, shamed, shames, shaming, so much, unwilling

«Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them»

Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | Keywords: continually, cure, faults, neither, repeats, shame, shamed, shames, shaming

«Take this remark from Richard poor and lame, Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame»

Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: anger, begun, ends, lame, lamed, lames, lamest, poor, remark, Richard, Richard I, shame, shamed, shames, shaming

«There are two ways to get rid of thorns and wicked persons; using footwear in the first case and in the second shaming them so that they cannot raise their faces again thus keeping them at a distance.»

Author: Chanakya (Politician, strategist, Writer) | Keywords: faces, shaming, thorns

«A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . . .»

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: decisions, delicate, depths, destiny, few, in depth, meets, paths, reach, shame, shamed, shames, shaming

«The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.»

Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Hypocrisy, Morality, Shame | Keywords: books, calls, immoral, ITS, shame, shamed, shames, shaming, show, the books

«The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.»

Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Books | Keywords: books, calls, immoral, shame, shamed, shames, shaming, show, the books

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