Humiliation Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Todd Solondz

  Pain, People, Trying

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.

  Emil Fackenheim

  Punishment, Two, Holocaust

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• Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.

  Mike Aquilina

  Growing Up, Disappointment, Grateful

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• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Moving, Doors

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• In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from generations of humiliation under foreign occupation, we have accomplished much to our credit, overcome many difficulties and changed the course of our history.

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Country, War, Years

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

  Alberto Manguel

  Occupation, Reader

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.

  George H. Brimhall

  Humility

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• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

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• The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

  Franz Wright

  Past, Thinking, Grace

  Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.56, Knopf

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• My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

  Peter Tosh

  Philosophy, Crowns, Bears

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• But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Distance, Loss

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• 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.'

  Callie Khouri

  Television, Like You, Accepted

  "'Nashville’s' Callie Khouri: 'Watching two women go at it is boring'" by Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. October 21, 2012.

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• The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

  Hamid Karzai

  Book, Heart, People

  "11 Injured in Protests Against Qur’an Burning". www.thestar.com. September 10, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Keegan

  Years, Islam, West

  "Foreign Correspondent" with Jennifer Byrne, (ABC, Australia), October 10, 2001.

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• Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

  Nigel Dennis

  Courage, Self, Risk

  Nigel Forbes Dennis (1949). “A Sea Change”

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• I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Frustration, Used

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• Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Desire, Strange

  Blaise Pascal (1910). “Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”

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• A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Character, Men, Hands

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?

  Kay Arthur

  Jesus, Heaven, Use

  Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.89, WaterBrook

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• The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Overwhelming

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• With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

  Charles Simeon

  Sweet, Acceptance, Men

  Charles Simeon, William Carus, Charles Pettit McIivaine (Bp.), Daniel Wilson (1847). “Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: with a selection from his writings and correspondence”, p.518

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• I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

  Seth Rogen

  Awards, Giving, Mars

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• The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to themselves. A litany of personal humiliation, outrage, and anger turned sicklelike back to themselves as humor. They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness. All but Empire State, who stood, broom in hand and drop-lipped, with the expression of a very intelligent ten-year-old.

  Toni Morrison

  Running, Intelligent, Men

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Law, People

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name. . . . The French city . . . had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.

  James Fenton

  Country, Children, War

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