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Quotes About Humiliate

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Loneliness is my curse---our species' curse---it's the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers.
~ Douglas Coupland
I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.
~ David Doubilet
Rey found herself in his mind even as he invaded hers. She felt his rage, like a ruinous storm that filled his head, and his hatred, and his lust to dominate and humiliate those who had wronged him. But she also felt his hurt, and his loneliness. And his fear - that he would never prove as strong as Darth Vader, the ghost who haunted his dreams
~ Jason Fry
We all care about language, some of us more than others, but the degree to which one is willing to humiliate or upbraid others should not stand as an indication of how much one cares.
~ Ammon Shea
hubris was a crime in ancient Athens. To humiliate a defeated foe was a crime.
~ Rick Pitino
There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.
~ Laura Kinsale
Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.
~ John Wooden
There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.
~ Heavy D
Jared hadn't planned it, had never even thought about it, but he couldn't control taking complete possession of her mouth with a bruising kiss. He wanted to insult her, to further humiliate her, to shatter her damned poise. But her body was so female, her lips so soft, warm, virginal, that what had been hurtful and brutal became tender, seeking, questioning.
~ Sandra Brown
A selfish-figure may harm itself and a few other subjects; however, a selfish-nation can humiliate itself and also damage all other nations.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Rude, violent and bitter conduct, discussion, talk, and speech only humiliate and harm oneself, not one else.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
What are you doing?" – Abigail "We tore my room up, remember? I don't want to sleep with a big hole over my head. Plaster or something might fall down and scare me enough, I could scream like a woman and humiliate myself. I definitely don't want to do that with Sasha in the house. He'd laugh at me forever, and I'd have to skin him." – Sundown
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
~ Yehuda Berg
How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.
~ John Waters
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs of the people and their country?
~ Matteo Salvini
I don't think the expectation is that the 'Psych' musical is going to be 'Rent,' so I think as long as we didn't completely humiliate ourselves and it is funny and it is in the tone of what we do, we'd have a fighting chance of pulling it off.
~ James Roday
There is enough light to enlighten the elect and enough obscurity to humiliate them. There is enough obscurity to blind the reprobate and enough light to condemn them and deprive them of excuse.
~ Blaise Pascal
The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where no more than two or three people are known to us in depth. Look at writers like Proust. They knew how to use minor characters to humiliate, to belittle their protagonists.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Later Tomás de Romeu asked Diego why he had challenged Moncada if he was not prepared to shoot him. Diego replied that he had never intended to carry a death on his conscience; all he had wanted was to humiliate him.
~ Isabel Allende
Era sabido, entretanto, que os Aliados tinham resolvido ir até o último homem e o último centavo para humilhar López.
~ George Thompson
There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.
~ Laura Kinsale