Ashamed

Famous quotes containing the word ashamed:

“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

“We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)