Indignity Quotes

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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. — George Santayana
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I… — Adlai E. Stevenson
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause… — George Will
Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but… — Gregory Maguire
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over… — P.J. O'Rourke
I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand… — Nelson Mandela
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at… — John Mortimer
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain… — Elie Wiesel
Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot… — Megan Whalen Turner
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He… — Jonathan Franzen
Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to… — Gail Carriger
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. — Michael Chabon
I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity...… — Margo MacDonald

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