A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan Sontag

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
Mary Wortley

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
Warren Beatty

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
George Takei

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.
Moo-hyum Roh

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
Sophocles

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
Oriana Fallaci

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
Shelley Winters

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
Sallust

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Mary McCarthy

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Pliny the Elder

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius

It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
King Hassan II

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
Bill Pascrell

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.
Kevin Eubanks

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
J. Irwin Miller

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
Doc Hastings