Humiliation Quotes

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

To write is a humiliation.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

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 - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

With publicity comes humiliation.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

Art is born of humiliation.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.