Best 123 quotes in «humiliation quotes» category

This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now of my inferiority. This gradual anger over one humiliation after another may be hard for men to understand and even women who have not had the need to seek redress from perpetrators and who have been allowed to grow as I did in my youth unhindered, protected from male dominated themes like the military."47 (47 - paraphrased from Gurko, Miriram, The Ladies of Seneca Falls; the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement, 1974.

To live with his physical hideousness, incapacitating deformities and unremiting pain is trial enough, but to be exposed to the cruelly lacerating expressions of horror and disgust by all who behold him -- is even more difficult to bear. [...] For in order to survive, Merrick forces himself to suffer these humiliations, I repeat, humiliations, in order to survive, thus he exposes himself to crowds who pay to gape and yawp at this freak of nature, the Elephant Man.

To those who despair of everything, not reason but only passion can provide a faith, and in this particular case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair—namely, humiliation and hatred. There was no longer any standard of values, both common to and superior to all these men, in the name of which it would have been possible for them to judge one another.

Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple.

Were it not for frustration and humiliation I suppose the human race would get ideas above its station.

We were the most humiliated people on earth and God gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, God will humiliate us again.

Whatever we do to shame or degrade others, we do to ourselves.

When a person uses his or her position of power from a church, corporation, or government to throw disgust upon a person for holding a different perspective, the person with the position of power is using lust as a mindset to gain control over the masses. Superior-Disgust-Lust is a complex and it's a method by which individuals steal from other human beings.

You cannot really hurt a masochist.

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.

You gently lift my chin with one finger and stare deep into my eyes. Automatically I drop my gaze to avoid eye contact with you, but not before I see the debauchery loaded in your expression. “Whose slut are you?” you ask, “and you have permission to look at me whilst you reply.” I glance up at you quickly and take a moment to absorb your beautiful face before you deprive me of it again. “I am your slut, Master – only yours.” Your eyes burn into mine and you too pause to relish your utter possession of me.

you have to bear either the humiliation of being in need or the hardships of doing it all alone by yourself.

[W]e all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are a mass of vulnerabilities, and who knows what will trigger them?

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love.

You land a second strike, this time just on my left cheek. It feels hard already and stings like hell. I imagine the red mark it has left on my behind as I thank you. As the belt catches my right buttock, I squeeze my eyes shut. I know my tears are close. You strike me again and again. You vary the location and the intensity; somehow never letting me settle into a pattern with the pain. I try to keep count in mind, but after fifteen I am lost in the hot, stinging sensation of my behind.

You will get exactly what you deserve Polly,” comes the firm reply, “you can trust me on that… But if you do – trust me I mean – I promise you an unparalleled climax.” She pauses, gazing deep into my frightened green eyes. “It’s your call Polly, all yours.” I allow my aching body to decide for me . “Punish me please, mistress,” I say in a very small voice.

You think because you can humiliate me, you can control me?

You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.' She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn. 'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.

I would rather a sex tape make its way out than a video of me doing all of the different grunt sounds. I'm not eager for a sex tape to leak, but in terms of personal humiliation, I'd feel less vulnerable to be in a Kim Kardashian situation than seeing myself grunting in a booth.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

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

No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.

There is really no end to life's little humiliations.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.