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People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.
— Isaac Asimov
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
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
— John Donne
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
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
It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.
— Henry A. Kissinger
This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion.
— Diane Meier
With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.
— Jorge Luis Borges
friendship cannot stand humiliation.
— Graham Greene
It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.
— Pascal Mercier
A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.
— Jim Butcher
Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
— William Goldman
the deepest form of humiliation isn't experienced in the eyes of others, but in the lonely desperation of oneself.
— Natalia Sylvester
Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust ...
— Megan Lee
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.
— Ben Aaronovitch
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
existence is humiliation, anyway.
— Steve Toltz
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
— Guy Davenport
I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.
— Penelope Keith
We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.
— Mother Teresa
Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.
— Andrew Murray
As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.
— Monica Lewinsky
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
— Gerry Adams
In the slow motion that is the speed of humiliation.
— Colson Whitehead
You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.
— P. J. O'Rourke
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
— Herbert Croly
I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.
— Judd Apatow
To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.
— Dan B. Allender
There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility.
— Nivard Kinsella
It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.
— Michael Johnson
I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The lies we construct to defend ourselves from humiliation are the strongest, refusing to be torn down.
— Sloane Crosley
Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.
— Alain De Botton
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
— Elie Wiesel
If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love.
— Hermann Hesse
But with time I came to understand that seeing a rubbery as a humiliation and an affront is an exmotional luxury.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
Moral of the story: Mortify yourself - when you are at your lowest, you feel ironically self-confident!
— Felicia Day
Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.
— Francine Pascal
Know glory but cleave to humiliation.
— Lao-Tzu
I'd had my heart broken, you see. Fell in love with the wrong chap and he crushed me right down to the bedrock. Nothing left but humiliation.
— Deanna Raybourn
Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.
— Stewart O'Nan
Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle. But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it. — Girish Kohli
The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor.
— George W. Bush
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
— Cesare Pavese
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
You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.
— Diane Von Furstenberg
Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.
— David Whyte
Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.
— George Orwell
Clem: Hide me somewhere deeper, somewhere really buried.Joel: Where?
Clem: Hide me in your humiliation. — Charlie Kaufman
Any country that is now humbled and humiliated by darkness will be raised up by God
— Sunday Adelaja
When I experienced humiliation and yet kept walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny.
— Paulo Coelho
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll ...
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
— Thomas Merton
With publicity comes humiliation.
— Tama Janowitz
The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
— Stephen Sondheim
Humility fears not humiliation.
— John Spencer Yantiss
Do not confuse humility with humiliation.
— Alan Cohen
It's probably possible to gain humility by means other than repeated humiliation, but repeated humiliation works very well.
— Mark Vonnegut
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
— Henning Mankell
Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Art is born of humiliation.
— W. H. Auden
Were it not for frustration and humiliationI suppose the human race would get ideas above its station. — Ogden Nash
One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
— Gerry Adams
There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.
— Monica Lewinsky
Butterflies catch fire in my stomach. An inexplicable humiliation is searing my flesh. I don't know where to look.
— Tahereh Mafi
It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.
— William Inge
He put his finger guns away. He should not be allowed to carry weapons of mass humiliation.
— T.J. Klune
For to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan
— Jane Austen
