The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead. — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of… — Henry Ossawa Tanner Copy Share Image
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel,… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
My job is thick with risks, threats, occasional violence and sometimes the necessary folly that sometimes courts humiliation and ridicule. But I… — Ron Galella Copy Share Image
“Verbal Greeting, Refusal to Touch Hands, Public Denial of Formerly Agreed-upon Opinion, Refusal to Repeat a Joke and Mortification Event (a catch-all).… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I imagine witches to be people who sit around like my witty grandmother, people who are injustice collectors or humiliation collectors. I… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
What's comforting about coming from a family of actors is I don't have to explain the struggle. I can just sigh to… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
“They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Xenophobia doesn't always look like a monument of shame. It doesn't always look like ridicule and jeering. It looks like a room… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
“You told me i was your world. It wasn't me. I was an animal." My heart pounded. My cheeks burned. You never… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed. — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Why did he go onward? Why did he not rest here upon the bottom of utmost humiliation and for a while take… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted… — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“This was the Big One. This was humiliation, disappointment, and dissolution all wrapped up together, tied with a big red bow of… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
