Shamelessness Quotes

Soldiers now pose, thumbs up, before the atrocities they commit, and send off the pictures to their buddies and family. What is revealed by these photographs is as much the culture of shamelessness as the reigning admiration for unapologetic brutality. Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal. (Susan Sontag)
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence. View quote
Salman Rushdie
There can be no doubt as to the measureless shamelessness of the English in combating our really modest colonial efforts. View quote
Alfred von Waldersee
[the foreign Muslims (or Turks)] "alone are capable of virtue, kindness, generosity, valour, good deed, good works, truthfulness, keeping of promises... loyalty, clarity of vision, justice, equity, recognition of rights, gratitude for favours and fear of God. They are, consequently, said to be noble, free born, virtuous, religious, of high pedigree and pure birth. These groups, alone are worthy of offices and posts in the government... Owing to their actions the government of the king is strengthened and adorned.” [On the other hand the] "low-born” (Indian) Muslims are capable only of vices - immodesty, falsehood, miserliness, misappropriation, wrongfulness, lies, evil-speaking ingratitude,...shamelessness, impundence... [So they are called] low-born, bazaar people, base, mean, worthless, plebian, shameless and of dirty birth”. View quote
Ziauddin Barani
Her libido blazed to life. She smiled, impressed by the party-crashing shamelessness of sex, its willingness to show up anywhere-a funeral, a sermon, a final farewell. This was the way to go out, all right, thumbing your labia at the cosmos. View quote
James K. Morrow
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. View quote
Umberto Eco
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. View quote
Cicero
To me "where the wild things are" is a place that exists in our minds; it's a place of liberty and shamelessness. It can take a split second or a lifetime to find it, but once you do, you'll be free. View quote
Alessia Cara
Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character. View quote
Stephen Colbert
The hearts of their families are still broken and bereaved and our people remain grief-stricken and angry. Instead of apology and remorse and judicial prosecution of those who were directly at fault in that horrifying event, Saudi rulers- with utmost shamelessness and insolence- refused to allow the formation of an international Islamic fact-finding committee. View quote
Ali Khamenei
I myself, however, when a young man, was at first led by inclination, like most others, to engage in political affairs; but in that pursuit many circumstances were unfavorable to me; for, instead of modesty, temperance, and integrity, there prevailed shamelessness, corruption, and rapacity. (Sallust)
if the United States feels obligated to intervene in Korea with all their weapons, let them mobilize themselves. Let them go fight for their interests, instead of taking advantage of Puerto Rico's defenselessness to make it go to defend the sordidness and the iniquity of their policy before the world, that is shamelessness. View quote
Pedro Albizu Campos