Humiliation Quotes

287 Humiliation quotes by 256 unique authors

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran. — Anwar Sadat
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to… — Vincent de Paul
Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . .… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom… — Anna Akhmatova
We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with… — Zygmunt Bauman
When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal. — Guillaume Musso
This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without… — Pope Francis
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of… — Ellen Willis
Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately. — Alain de Botton
But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the… — Anna Maxted
And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule. — Publilius Syrus
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great… — Art Buchwald
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. — Simone Weil
Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white… — Josephine Baker
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts… — Barbara Ehrenreich
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation… — Barbara Ehrenreich
To write is a humiliation. — Edward Dahlberg
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
I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I… — Seth Rogen
I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters. — Ben Stiller
With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured… — Charles Simeon
The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming. — Benjamin F. Wade
We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation. — Vance Havner

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