#shameful

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ↗

— Plato

#conquer #conquered #first #greatest #most

Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody. ↗

— David Shuster

#been #bill #channel #comes #coverage

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#considered #deaths #demeaning #diseases #easy

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#figure #fraudulent #i #i think #keep

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

— David Hackworth

#meaning #more #old #racket #saying

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

The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#me #revolts #shameful

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful. ↗

— George Takei

#came #camp #first #i #out

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#basic #failures #keep #made #makes

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#equal #extract #indulge #live #money