#shame

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#african #ashamed #doing #easy #educated

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ashamed #end #immorality #morality #staircase

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. ↗

— Tenzing Norgay

#i #live #man #mount #mount everest

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attention #does #his #never #nothing

I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#am #any #around #believe #certain

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of. ↗

— Evan Davis

#mistakes #nothing

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#england #filmmaking #i #i love #love

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#after #ashamed #crises #crisis #help

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#been #being #enough #homosexuality #homosexuals

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#ashamed #background #either #feel #i