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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification. -- John Donne
One man's transparency is another's humiliation. -- Gerry Adams
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. -- Corazon Aquino
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
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. -- Mahatma Gandhi
With publicity comes humiliation. -- Tama Janowitz
To write is a humiliation. -- Edward Dahlberg
Humiliation scars deeper than the lash. -- Tobsha Learner
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. -- John Guare
Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom. -- Andrew Murray
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. -- Alice Munro
I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember. -- B. B. King
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls. -- Janet Morris
Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile. -- Francine Pascal
Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else. -- David Mamet
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, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them. -- Mohammed Dib
The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people. -- Hamid Karzai
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Nothing good ever happens at lunch. The cafeteria is a giant sound stage where they film daily segments of Teenage Humiliation Rituals. And it smells gross. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
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
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
Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself. -- Ouida
Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life. -- Albert Einstein
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
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries. -- Orson Scott Card
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
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
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
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
The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go. -- Matt Berninger
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public. -- Henry Knox
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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
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day. -- John Donne
I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation. -- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. -- Mother Teresa
Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human. -- Pierce Brosnan
It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule. -- Publilius Syrus
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. -- Elie Wiesel
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through. -- Mel Gibson
This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation. -- Pope Francis
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. -- Pankaj Mishra
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer. -- Art Buchwald
Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat. -- Nelson Mandela
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation. -- Anne Rice
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
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
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
I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me. -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate attempt to impress the opposite sex lead to at best deep humiliation, I now feel extremely blessed that I wasn't. -- Miranda Hart
A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built. -- Eleanor Robson Belmont
In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq. -- Seymour Hersh
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. -- Helen Fisher
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status. -- Laozi
We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation. -- Zygmunt Bauman
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me. -- Joss Whedon
Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well. -- Therese of Lisieux
Humility fears not humiliation. -- John Spencer Yantiss
Existence is humiliation, anyway. -- Steve Toltz
Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation. -- Orrin Woodward
These humiliations are the essence of the game. -- Alistair Cooke
I panicked. I farted.I shrieked in humiliation. -- Elle Casey
There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger. -- Pranab Mukherjee
The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming. -- Benjamin F. Wade
Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation. -- William Goldman
Who wants the humiliation of being father to the human race? -- Steve Toltz
I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters. -- Ben Stiller
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. -- W. H. Auden
Humility won't result in humiliation except it's void of truth and uprightness -- Constance Chuks Friday
Too often in my life, love has been defined as humiliation with occasional roses. -- Deb Caletti
How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever. -- Gerry Adams
HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROMAWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS,MEMORIES, HUMILIATION,DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR. -- Jenny Holzer
A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility. -- Laurel Lea
It is not the pain &the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation. -- Pascal Mercier
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. -- Henning Mankell
Clem: Hide me somewhere deeper, somewhere really buried.Joel: Where?Clem: Hide me in your humiliation. -- Charlie Kaufman
Life is like a bully that gets laughs by seeing how much humiliation you'll put up with. -- Michael Sullivan
My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. -- Charlotte Bronte
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll... -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Success always have in god work. self humiliation are devil work Do not ever despair of His Essence -- Waseem Shamsi
With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another. -- Jorge Luis Borges
It's probably possible to gain humility by means other than repeated humiliation, but repeated humiliation works very well. -- Mark Vonnegut
Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation. -- Ben Aaronovitch
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone -- Milan Kundera
His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don't show true emotions. -- Courtney Kirchoff
But with time I came to understand that seeing a rubbery as a humiliation and an affront is an exmotional luxury. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance. -- Stephen Mitchell
Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately. -- Alain de Botton
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. -- Mathieu Kerekou
Hermione's eyes lit up with a terrible light of helpfulness and something in the back of Harry's brain screamed in desperate humiliation. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people. -- Leon Trotsky
Russians consider themselves civilized Europeans, but have to endure the humiliation of daily encounters with officials that belong in a squalid dictatorship. -- Oliver Bullough
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. -- Michael Pollan
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK. -- Jennifer Gilmore
He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door. -- Maile Meloy
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. -- Catharine MacKinnon
If it were nothing but sexual attraction I'm sure I would not suffer such unbearable humiliation. But I wanted so much more than her body. -- Tahereh Mafi
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow. -- Henry Ossawa Tanner
If only I could tell someone.The humiliation I go throughwhen I think of my pastcan only be described as grace.We are created by being destroyed. -- Franz Wright
The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. -- Graham Greene
You were chased here by darkness. Listen to the curve of the hills, the guttering voice. The way to anywhere leads through humiliation. There are only animal trails. -- Tim Lilburn
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words. -- Godfrey Reggio
When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war. -- Charles Eisenstein
Why did he go onward? Why did he not rest here upon the bottom of utmost humiliation and for a while take his content?But he went onward. -- Carson McCullers
[H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation. -- George S. Clason
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
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love. -- Clive Barker
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful. -- Carson McCullers
The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive' of the formula Deus sive Natura. -- Carl Schmitt
Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively. -- bell hooks
Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. -- Alain de Botton
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. -- William Greider
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser. -- Beverly Cleary
Time, fertile in resources, more inventive and more charitable than we think, possesses a remarkable capacity to help us out, to afford us at any hour of the day some new humiliation. -- Emil Cioran
Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation. -- Lesslie Newbigin
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just. -- Bernard of Clairvaux

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