Acts Quote by Serge Schmemann

Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.

— Janet Morris

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

— John Guare

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

— James Gilligan

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl of five…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

— John Donne

I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and…

— Roger Casement

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action…

— Peter Ackroyd

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

— John Steinbeck

“The idea that humiliation is some capital crime of the spirit is a fiction. The sentences we hand down for losing control and succumbing…

— John Hockenberry

By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by…

— David Frum

“An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as…

— Barbara W. Tuchman