“The indignity of your fate is the will of one more powerful.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the indignity of not fitting into a roller coaster. — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
“I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“I’m talking about the kind of indignity that changes you as a person, makes you withdraw, hide from the world because suddenly… — S. Walden Copy Share Image
The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of… — Margo MacDonald Copy Share Image
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices,… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth:… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Anger can offer a sense of indignity to replace a sense of shame, and offer a voice-raised above others-which can finally be… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people’s convenience, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“The Word of God offers an exit strategy from a life of tragedy, inadequacy, indignity, and misery.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image