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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.