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The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Aside from being terrifying, it was totally humiliating. Rose Tyler, Barbie doll.
— Jacqueline Rayner
It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.
— Roger Ebert
Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.
— Madonna Ciccone
What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?
— Walter Kirn
What happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money.
— Jim Butcher
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
— Albert Camus
What rioters, out of control, are really protesting about is life itself. Most people do not like it, it's humiliating for almost everyone.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.
— L.M. Montgomery
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.
— Lena Dunham
After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.
— Jules Ferry
it had been tough, horribly tough, and humiliating and isolating and all the rest.
— Helen Callaghan
Rilla was not fond of Mary Vance. She had never forgotten the humiliating day when Mary had chased her through the village with a dried codfish.
— L.M. Montgomery
America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
— Anais Nin
It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time,
— Mark Hoppus
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
— Christopher Hampton
Poor as the poor I cling,
like them, to humiliating hopes;
like them, each day I nearly kill myself
just to live. — Pier Paolo Pasolini
like them, to humiliating hopes;
like them, each day I nearly kill myself
just to live. — Pier Paolo Pasolini
It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
— Jessica Lange
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.
— Camille Paglia
It's a certain kind of hell, confessing your most humiliating sexual secrets to a room full of hairy middle-aged men.
— Jessica Knoll
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
— Johan Huizinga
I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.
— Kangana Ranaut
She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.
— Rebecca West
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
— Arundhati Roy
I hate it when she does that. There's nothing more humiliating than being smacked by your crazy mother in front of your friends.
— Susan Ee
If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
— Adam Savage
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
— Margaret Halsey
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.
— Max Lerner
It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
— Charles E. McKenzie
It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
— Wendelin Van Draanen
While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.
— Gaston Leroux
The most humiliating thing you can do to a man is to save his life.
— David Mitchell
Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
— Larry David
The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.
— Oriana Fallaci
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
— Oscar Wilde
In Luke's Gospel, Jesus is never unkind to the weak. He treats Martha with humiliating honesty, just as he would treat the male disciples.
— Kate Cooper
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
— Gustave Flaubert
We don't care about humiliating ourselves to ourselves, after all, no one is going to judge us and there are no witnesses.
— Javier Marias
For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.
— Stephenie Meyer
Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?
— Patrick Henry
There was nothing that made a girl feel better about a guy humiliating her than a different cute guy asking her out.
— Kasie West
I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.
— Adam Sandler
It's so damned humiliating.
— Mark Twain
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
— Richard Hofstadter
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
— Jeanette Winterson
Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.
— Claire Danes
Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
— George Ayittey
Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility .
— Nouman Ali Khan
It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.
— John Wyndham
There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.
— Jerry Hall
But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating
conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic. — James Branch Cabell
conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic. — James Branch Cabell
We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.
— John Calvin
My secrets are petty but humiliating.
— Mason Cooley
Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating ... yet so joyous.
— Ken Green
To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.
— Manti Te'o
That's one of the things about Hef: when it came to humiliating his girlfriends, the larger the audience, the better.
— Holly Madison
I want to teach you to express hostile feelings without humiliating or destroying others in the process.
— George J. Thompson
My behavior is humiliating.
— Danny Bonaduce
My point,' I said, 'is that there's hell in every handshake, never mind an outright and humiliating insult.
— Thomas Ligotti
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
— Ruth Rendell
Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.
— Nicole Kidman
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
— Chuck Daly
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit
— Woodrow Wilson
Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.
— Jennifer Aniston
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
— Mignon McLaughlin
You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer.
— Suzanne Somers
It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.
— Philip Yancey
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
— Amelia Barr
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.
— Leonard Cohen
In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure.
— Aldous Huxley
It's humiliating to have to explain your value.
— Christine Vachon
I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.
— Alexei Navalny
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.
— Jeffrey Archer
By a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!
— Jane Austen
I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.
— Jeremy Camp
all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs. One
— James Baldwin
Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
It is impossible to go on living when life assumes such grotesque and humiliating forms.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.
— Sarah Silverman
No one was watching. No one was there to hear the echo of the dying. But nothingness was still humiliating
that thingness of absence, like space. — E.J. Koh
that thingness of absence, like space. — E.J. Koh
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
— Ravi Zacharias
I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.
— Leo Tolstoy
Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.
— Albert Bigelow Paine
Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.
— Fanny Fern
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.
— Maria Semple