Humiliation Quotes

287 Humiliation quotes by 256 unique authors

Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles… — Gregory of Nazianzus
My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach… — Peter Tosh
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is… — Dag Hammarskjold
You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love.… — Suzy Kassem
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

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