Best Humiliating Quotes
143 Humiliating quotes by 132 unique authors
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag…
— Ben Affleck
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We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as…
— Bob Dylan
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Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position…
— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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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
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit
— Woodrow Wilson
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My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!'…
— Claudia Black
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore,…
— Umberto Eco
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Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more…
— Thomas Merton
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That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot…
— David O. Russell
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After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.
— Jules Ferry
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Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
— Ravi Zacharias
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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
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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
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Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this interest. Instead, needlessly…
— Arenda L. Wright Allen
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Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized…
— William Wilberforce
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Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but…
— Emma Goldman
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It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
— Albert Camus
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Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility .
— Nouman Ali Khan
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We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid…
— Dalai Lama
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It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of…
— Alfie Kohn
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Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.
— Eduardo Galeano
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Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
— Johan Huizinga
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They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said…
— Louise Jameson
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But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession…
— Ernestine Rose
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I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on…
— Henry Flynt
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