Quote of the Day: Shame

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
: Horace

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance {of self}.
: Karl A. Menninger

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
: Barbara Ehrenreich

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