Action Quote by George Eliot

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we…

— David Whyte

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

— Penelope Wilton

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

— Madonna Ciccone

Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of…

— Cesare Pavese

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

— Emile M. Cioran

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

— Pierre Corneille

Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the saying, 'Be…

— Niels Arden Oplev

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

— Tom Conti

I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and…

— James Gilligan

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

— Charlotte Lennox