quotations about disgrace
Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us.
ARISTOTLE
Rhetoric
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.
OUIDA
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
CONFUCIUS
The Analects
For if to poverty we add disgrace,
Our poverty will be of double weight.
PLAUTUS
Persa
The disgrace of the city is the fault of the citizens.
AMERICAN PROVERB