“The indignity of your fate is the will of one more powerful.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
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 ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and… — Ai-jen Poo Copy Share Image
I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
“Dragged from your room. A red crease of sleep visible down your cheek, eyes foggy with the adjustment from a state of… — Ali Land Copy Share Image
What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower… — John D. MacDonald 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
There is nothing like the indignity of not fitting into a roller coaster. — Mick Foley 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
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