#shameful

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning. ↗

— David Hackworth

#meaning #more #old #racket #saying

It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms. ↗

— King Hassan II

#arms #contrary #cowardly #down #his

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#contain #desires #examined #our #reveal

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#american #artistic #body #damaging #disgusting

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#dictated #ethical #even #honorable #military

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. ↗

— Phaedrus

#believed #detected #even #ever #ever after

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. ↗

— George Farquhar

#crime #like #nor #poverty #rags

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#earning #economic #full-time #full-time job #injustice

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#earner #full #gas #half #just

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#better #days #i #our time #reading