“ It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. ”
- Mathieu Kerekou- Copy
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“ A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility. ”
- Laurel Lee- Copy
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“ The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
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“ Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? ”
- Patrick Henry- Copy
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“ In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
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“ Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. ”
- John Grisham- Copy
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“ There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away. ”
- Ken Kesey- Copy
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“ Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. ”
- William Tecumseh Sherman- Copy
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“ I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment. ”
- Karen Crockett- Copy
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“ To those who despair of everything, reason cannot provide a faith but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. ”
- Nigel Dennis- Copy
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“ The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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“ I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ”
- Elie Weisel- Copy
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“ Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation. ”
- Lewis S. Feuer- Copy
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“ Being much troubled to see the falseness of the constitution of the Church of England, I had like to have turned Separatist. Whereupon I kept a day of solemn humiliation and pondering of the thing; this scripture was brought unto me-he that denies Jesus Christ to be come in the flesh is antichrist. ”
- Anne Hutchinson- Copy
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“ Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man. ”
- Rip Torn- Copy
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“ Knowing that no one avoids sorrow, humiliation, pain, or death creates a foundation for universal, unconditional compassion. If we know that these things cannot be avoided, then we might try to compete, wish, hope, and fear a little less frantically, which could make life more fun… ”
- Timothy Ray Miller- Copy
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“ In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. ”
- Jean Genet- Copy
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“ Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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