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  Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Years, Voice, Abuse

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.11, Beacon Press

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• Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Self Respect, Begging

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• Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

  James A. Baldwin

  African American, Wise Words, Anti Racist

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love

  Anna Akhmatova

  Pain, And Love, Enchantment

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• Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

  Michael Pollan

  Pain, Regret, Self

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• Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Jesus, Adversity, Fire

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• There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

  David Whyte

  Latin, Humility, Pride

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• Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Selfish, Ignorant

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

  Charles Eisenstein

  War, Facts, Sides

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• Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Safe, Easy

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.898, Library of America

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• One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

  Gerry Adams

  Men, Transparency, One Man

  "Collaboration 2. 0: Technology and Best Practices for Successful". Book by Gerry Adams. Happy About, p. 93, January 1, 2008.

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• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Leadership, Order

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• Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope to not fear the truth, even when it is painful, to not hide it or cover it up. However, this does not mean enduring strategies to discredit (the Church) in general...It is appropriate, then, that we all return to calling things by their names at all times, to identify evil in all of its gravity and in the multiplicity of its manifestations.

  Angelo Bagnasco

  Mean, Names, Evil

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• A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Men, Order

  "LIFE" Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, (p. 48), August 5, 1946.

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• Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Gratitude, Tree, Fruit

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2010.

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

  James Buchan

  Real, Losing, Trousers

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• Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

  John Guare

  Tragedy, Comedy, Avoiding

  John Guare (2002). “The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome”, p.5, The Overlook Press

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• To write is a humiliation.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing

  Edward Dahlberg (1968). “The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality”, New York : Weybright and Talley

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• The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

  Anne Rice

  Happiness, Laughter, Perfect

  Anne Rice (1995). “Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches”

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• All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

  Corazon Aquino

  Pride, People, World

  "Imelda and the Clans: A Story of the Philippines" by Beatriz Romualdez Francia, Solar Publishing Corporation, (p. 510), 1988.

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Taught, Bitter, Obedience

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• Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

  Art Buchwald

  Writing, Suffering, Failing

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

  Thomas Hardy

  Believe, Eye, Looks

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.131, Diversion Books

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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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