Definition of Humiliation

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Definition of Humiliation
	Humiliation The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification. The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission. Related Definitions: Abasement, Act, Being, Humbled, Humbling, Humiliated, Humiliating, Lowliness, Mortification, Of, Or, Pride, Reduced, State, Submission, The, To

Humiliation Quotations

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

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

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

Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
George Armstrong Custer

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

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

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

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

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
John Donne

Humiliation Translations

humiliation in Norwegian is ydmykelse

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