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Quotes About Humiliation

A parents' dissatisfaction causes poverty and leads to humiliation.
~ al-Hadi, Ali
The torturing and testing of parents, is followed by shortage (of sustenance), and being driven towards belittlement and humiliation.
~ al-Hadi, Ali
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
And now for our entertainment when we want humiliation we've got reality TV instead, Iris says. And soon instead of reality TV we'll have the President of the United States.
~ Ali Smith
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.
~ Alice Miller
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
~ Alice Munro
De que lhe serve, finalmente, humilhar-se diante de Deus, se, perante os homens, conserva o seu orgulho?
~ Allan Kardec
Who is Baine?" Nella asked. "My computer," Dr. Laas said. "A man I had an affair with programmed the voice in before he left. I told him to go, you see, and this was his revenge. Baine sounds just like him." "Do not insult me," Baine answered. " I am a thousand times superior to your fly-by-night lover. He is now in jail on Station 1217, by the way, for indecent exposure." "Really?" Dr. Laas brightened. "How delightful.
~ Allyson James
The parade, the participation of children, the public mockery, the photographs - all of these were essential elements of prewar anti-Jewish actions. The public humiliation of Jews in German localities followed a script from 1933 through the deportations in 1941-1943. Germans knew this script and followed it as they deported the Jews.
~ Alon Confino
Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
~ Wendi McLendon-Covey
Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.
~ Peter Landesman
I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'
~ Rashida Jones
Competitive sports may be where exercise becomes 'fun' for children who are good at it, but for those who are less talented, it is where exercise becomes not only physically demanding but also emotionally painful and socially humiliating.
~ Naomi Alderman
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
~ Richard Linklater
Your a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss
~ Richard Paul Evans
You're a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss
~ Richard Paul Evans
Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a succubus who moonlights as a Christmas elf?" "You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him. "Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the Mayor's mistress.
~ Richelle Mead
You ignorant little slug! the Trunchbull bellowed. You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!
~ Roald Dahl
Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop! The great big greedy nincompoop!
~ Roald Dahl
We were disgraced and we felt disgraced.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
What are you doing now? Al questioned Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is. My expression went blank, and Trent hesitated. He looked at me, and I put a hand to my mouth, face flaming. Oh. My. God. Trent. I'm sorry Um Trent said, clearly at a loss. Call me tomorrow, Al said seriously, I've got a curse that will take care of that. Unless you like the snake in a turtleneck look
~ Kim Harrison
I'd watch your mouth, he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID.The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose.
~ Kim Harrison
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
~ Kingsley Amis