Quotes About Humiliating Others

#1. America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

Anais Nin

#2. She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.

Rebecca West

#3. But to a woman, failure is another matter. For her it means failure to live, failure to establish her own life on the face of the earth. And this is humiliating, the ultimate humiliation.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. It was from Willi I learned how many women like to be bullied. It was humiliating and I used to fight against accepting it as true. But I've seen it over and over again. If

Doris Lessing

#5. Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Eduardo Galeano

#6. 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

#7. It makes you crazy. Waiting for someone to love you, to come to you and only you, to choose you like you've already chosen, is the most degrading, debasing, demoralising ... and yet, sweet, sweet pain there is. It's as humbling aas it is humiliating. But yes, there is a sweet side.

Pamela Ribon

#8. Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Johan Huizinga

#9. Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.

Saul David

#10. It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

Angela Davis

#11. Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.

Rajneesh

#12. It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics ... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.

Dag Hammarskjold

#13. What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

Jeanette Winterson

#14. Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

William Powell

#16. I hate it when she does that. There's nothing more humiliating than being smacked by your crazy mother in front of your friends.

Susan Ee

#17. It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

Nathaniel Branden

#18. I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class

Pat Conroy

#19. While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

Gaston Leroux

#20. I want to teach you to express hostile feelings without humiliating or destroying others in the process.

George J. Thompson

#21. It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Benito Mussolini

#22. We are angered even by the full acceptance of our humiliating confessions - how much more by hearing in hard distinct syllables from the lips of a near observer, those confused murmurs which we try to call morbid, and strive against as if they were the oncoming of numbness!

George Eliot

#23. Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#24. I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

Stephen Sondheim

#25. There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.

Leo Tolstoy

#26. We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.

John Calvin

#27. I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Maria Mitchell

#28. Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

Argus Hamilton

#29. I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?"

Sarah Paulson

#30. My behavior is humiliating.

Danny Bonaduce

#31. I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

Sarah Silverman

#32. We don't care about humiliating ourselves to ourselves, after all, no one is going to judge us and there are no witnesses.

Javier Marias

#33. We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Umberto Eco

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

Jerry Hall

#35. Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

Jennifer Aniston

#36. The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Oscar Wilde

#37. Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Ravi Zacharias

#38. It is impossible to go on living when life assumes such grotesque and humiliating forms.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#39. 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

#40. My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I'm older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.

Margaret Atwood