Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.
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 is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and dark jokes.
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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