Humiliation Quotes

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Themselves, Mystery

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever 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 Wiesel

Human, Silence, Suffering

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
E. W. Howe

Life, Work, Great

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Healthy, Recovery

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Easy, Result

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Simone Weil

Time, Truth, Long

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

Great, Friendly, Away

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
John Donne

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.
Alice Miller

Children, Give, Turn

Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Change, Poetry, Through

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
Corazon Aquino

Greatest, Pride, Themselves

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.
Jane Campion

Work, Home, Try

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
Gerry Adams

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
James Buchan

Real, Losing, Soon

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
Kate Millett

God, Mean, Hopeless

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. King

Care, Remember, Put

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.
Sloane Crosley

Freedom, Technology, Able

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.
Seth Rogen

Music, Experience, Giving

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
John Boyd Orr

Power, Revenge, Defeat

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
Ben Stiller

Willing, Characters, Endure

Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.
Conrad Black

Success, Hands, Muslim

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
Gerry Adams

Days, Gone, Forever

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
Henry Mayhew

Women, Lost, After

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
Arthur Eddington

Hope, Nothing, Give

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.
Pranab Mukherjee

We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.
Hassan Nasrallah

War, Fight, Someone

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Women, Anger, Medical

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.
John Keegan

Islam, Sense, Early

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.
Todd Solondz

Work, Truth, Pain

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