Monica Lewinsky Quotes

Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.

There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

It's flattering that there are lots of Internet fan sites about me. I'm a bit of a technophobe and I don't even own a laptop, but it's probably a good thing I'm not logged on, checking up on what everyone is saying about me.

It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.

Like confidence, legitimacy can vanish in a hurry and once lost, is very difficult to regain.

The fear of missing out … causes media, more than ever before, [to] hunt in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out.

One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.

I am aware of some of the things about me on the Internet - like people putting up pictures of me online every single day on something called Rachel Watch!

The whole social media can destroy people overnight.

The word 'racist' is a permanent stain against my name. It's worse than a criminal record. Some people will never forgive me. Others will accept I made a terrible mistake and recognise I have learnt from it. It's on YouTube when my kids type in their dad's name, and it comes up 'Jamie Vardy racist'. On Google, too. It's horrible.

People conclude that if the famous can be dragged through the virtual public square and unceremoniously dumped, the fate of any random tweeter or the average man or woman on the street can seem even more precarious.

I went through that phase in my life where everything I did wrong was displayed into the public and all over national TV, so I went through a part of my life where I was afraid to do things because I didn't want to make a mistake.

I'd become a bit of a joke. People would make memes, chopping my head off in a group photo and putting a monster or ET on there. I'd be in live Q&As and these things would pop up and I'd have to just sit there.

As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.