Self Abasement Quotes

#1. The vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

Ayn Rand

#2. Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. She could not distinguish between contrition and self-abasement; between acknowledgment and blame.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#4. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.

George Orwell

#5. Whether it is Paul defending Judaism, Augustine pursing philosophical learnedness, Luther attempting complete ritual self-abasement, each finally realized he had given himself to secular forms of self-salvation and to a world filled with human achievement but empty of God.

William Dean

#6. The old civilisations claimed that they were founded on love and justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy - everything.

George Orwell

#7. But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Stephen Mitchell

#8. Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

Anthony Burgess

#9. I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn't seem much different from not loving.

Tom Stoppard

#10. The Negro does not want love. He wants justice ... I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.

E. Franklin Frazier

#11. It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.

Wm. Paul Young

#12. Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

Baha'u'llah

#13. Most men love to see their best friend in abasement; for generally it is on such abasement that friendship is founded.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#15. Used every man according to his capacity.

Mary Stewart

#16. Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.

Baltasar Gracian

#17. Then, when shame strikes, it is so nasty you have to numb yourself, and what better anesthetic than your addiction? It is the perfect vicious circle.

Edward T. Welch

#18. She could argue with the wall in China and win.

Lauren Kate

#19. The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Karl Marx

#20. The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Doris Humphrey

#21. But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world - by a teacher, a writer, anyone - is a judgement. The judgement that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.

Howard Zinn

#22. Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#23. When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.

Cynthia Rylant

#24. Thus I come, most blessed Father, and in all abasement beseech you to put to your hand, if it is possible, and impose a curb to those flatterers who are enemies of peace, while they pretend peace.

Martin Luther

#25. Posture Power, when interviewing for a job remember. Poor posture shows uncertainty and a lack of confidence and ability. Good posture conveys confidence and an air of capability.

Cindy Ann Peterson

#26. The investment world nevertheless has enough liars, cheaters, and thieves to keep Satan's check-in clerks frantically busy for decades to come.

Benjamin Graham

#27. A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

Patricia McConnell