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• The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

  Alain de Botton

  War, Land, Two

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• I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

  Michael Bergin

  Photography, Looks, Way

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• One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  Immanuel Kant (1996). “Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

  Adam Sandler

  Roles, Moments, Glad

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• If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Expression, People, Identity

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

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Top Performance". Book by Zig Ziglar (p. 64), September 1, 2004.

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• Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?

  Upton Sinclair

  Fate, Animal, Men

  "The Profits of Religion : An Essay in Economic Interpretation". Book by Upton Sinclair, Introductory, "Bootstrap-lifting", 1918.

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• Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated. And it will, therefore, increase the effectiveness of the decisions we make and try to implement for our development. My generation led Africa to political freedom. The current generation of leaders and peoples of Africa must pick up the flickering torch of African freedom, refuel it with their enthusiasm and determination, and carry it forward.

  Julius Nyerere

  Determination, Effectiveness, Decisions We Make

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• I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.

  Lydia Lunch

  Lunch, Would Be, Found

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• I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Strong Women, Heartbeat, Grew Up

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

  Desmond Tutu

  Knowing, Ubuntu, Self

  Desmond Tutu (2012). “No Future Without Forgiveness”, p.35, Random House

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• Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Country, Thinking, Doubt

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.55, BookBaby

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• Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Humility, Practice

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• Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Hurt, Men, Blue

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• The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Pride, Would Be, World

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• After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

  Tracey Gold

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Hate

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• Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Kindness, Humble, Grace

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• 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.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Needs, World, Injustice

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• The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of our time, who is in many ways humiliated and oppressed, and to orientate in a Christian way cultural, social, and ethical transformations that are unfolding in the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Men, Humanity

  "Pope Benedict XVI on Evangelization". streetevangelization.com.

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• I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice. Otherwise you'll be crushed by your fear of being humiliated. It'll control you the rest of your life. I really understood that. I haven't mastered it, I haven't come close to it.

  Caroline Myss

  Humble, Practice, Rest Of Your Life

  "A Conversation with Caroline Myss". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• "Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of safety from terrorists, burglars, or pickpockets... but security in the sense of knowing where you are, who you are, on what kind of future you can count, what will happen, whether you will preserve your position in society or whether you will be degraded and humiliated - this sort of security. This sort of security for many, many people - a rising number of people - looks at the moment more attractive than more freedom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Numbers, Knowing, People

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• It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.

  Alice Miller

  Beautiful, Lonely, Confused

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• William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

  Alain de Botton

  Pride, Expectations, Achievement

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• Donald Trump isn't really running for president, come on! This is obviously a new reality show, Celebrity Presidential Apprentice. It ends with the incompetent celebrity being berated, humiliated, then unceremoniously fired.

  Michael R. Burch

  Running, Reality, Presidential

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• Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, War, Fighting

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