Humiliation Quotes

287 Humiliation quotes by 256 unique authors

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage â€“ though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and… — Henry Ossawa Tanner
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend… — Oscar Wilde
How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and… — V.S. Naipaul
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall… — Henry Mayhew
It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public… — Linus Torvalds
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation. — Friedrich Nietzsche
For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make… — Godfrey Reggio
But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations. — Mike Aquilina
The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death.… — Emil Fackenheim
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore… — Todd Solondz
In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell… — Seymour Hersh
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
Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly… — Alaa Al Aswany
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. — John Guare
In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from generations of humiliation… — Tunku Abdul Rahman
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel
Humility is a safeguard against humiliation. — George H. Brimhall
No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at… — Alain de Botton

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