Ashamed Quotes

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Noam Chomsky

Power, Betray, Tradition

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
George McGovern

Public, Private, Admit

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.
Alicia Keys

Body, Curves, Thick

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
E. M. Forster

Husband, Woman, Vote

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift

Today, Saying, Wrong

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Michel de Montaigne

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

True, Nothing, Guilty

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Love, Sad, Past

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
J. K. Rowling

Against, Worth, Hold

There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.
Mike Wallace

Good, Yourself, Help

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift

Men, Often, Wonder

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
Kong Fu Zi

Words, Gentleman, Deeds

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Tony Campolo

Islam, Evil, Themselves

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
Joseph Brodsky

Change, Political, Soul

I was so ashamed of who I was.
Lady Gaga

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

Good, Women, Men

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
B. B. King

Family, May, Him

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
John Abbott

Wise, Everything, Afraid

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.
Billy Corgan

Nothing, Injuries

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.
Shania Twain

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome

Men, Enough, Poor

I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.
Reba McEntire

Thought, Country, Talk

It's not about me. It's about not having to be ashamed.
Gene Robinson

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.
Adam Sandler

Women, Sleep, Gay

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.
Lauryn Hill

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

Love, Filmmaking, England

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.
Christina Ricci

Afraid, Characters

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
Sue Johanson

Sad, Guilty, Sexual

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Find, Difficult, Quite

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