Humiliating Quotes - Page 2

• I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

  Christopher Hampton

  Husband, Thinking, Rivals

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• I think a huge amount of it is because of the Internet. Every single thing in the world is accessible with a few clicks. Almost every child, by the age of 13, has seen pornography. That's clearly different. It used to be really hard or really humiliating, as a 13-year-old, to access pornography. If you wanted to take a look at a Playboy, it was really challenging. Today, it's a joke.

  David Schwimmer

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

  Lena Dunham

  Jobs, Believe, College

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• Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Depressing, Reality

  "The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

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• Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas (May 23, 1908), later published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

  Gerry Adams

  Class, Forever, Citizens

  "Speech by Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Féin, to a Sinn Féin selection convention in Navan, County Meath". CAIN in the University of Ulster, December 1, 2004.

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• It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Mistake, Humility

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• The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Rodents, Definitions

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Life, People, Way

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• It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

  Albert Camus

  Suffering, Happiness And Love, Unhappy

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.

  Samantha Bee

  Pain, Disappointment, Sleep

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• My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue to act ridiculous.

  Christian Slater

  Mistake, Levels, Ridiculous

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• I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Events, Dishes

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• I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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• People are hungering for property — for a secure, permanent and independent link with spaceship earth that ownership represents and which only ownership can protect or defend. It is humiliating to possess nothing, to own nothing, and hence to produce nothing and to count for nothing.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Independent, People, Links

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• We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.

  Ilka Chase

  Art, Naked, Taste

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• The worst was I had little control in terms of smoothing out my questions and making myself look good the way I could in print. All the ums and uhs and rambling and apologies and hyenalike laughter at something that really isn't funny. You know when an artist will crack a joke, and you're like, "That's so hilarious," like, the fawning laughter that you can at least cut when it's print? It's just all out there, and it's really humiliating.

  Jancee Dunn

  Laughter, Cutting, Apology

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining these animals, the whole idea that we should enjoy the humiliating spectacle of an elephant or lion made to perform circus tricks shows a lack of respect for the animals as individuals.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Animal, Elephants

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• That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.

  David O. Russell

  Believe, Fighting, People

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• After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

  Jules Ferry

  Pride, Loss, Victory

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• It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies - as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' - can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.

  Alfie Kohn

  Punishment, People, Age

  "Humiliating Children In Public: A New Parenting Trend?" by Lisa Belkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2012.

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• 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

  Mean, Dinner, Cooks

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• There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.

  Jerry Hall

  Loving Someone, Infidelity, Forgiving

  "Who said that ?". www.mirror.co.uk. February 04, 2012.

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• Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.

  Diane Sawyer

  Inspiring, Lonely, Caring

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