#humiliating

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#had #humiliating #law #mainly #means

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#consulted #disappointing #handled #humiliating #john

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#done #faced #fears #humiliating #i

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ↗

— Ellen Key

#besides #corporal #effect #gives #hardening

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#discouraging #humiliating #limit #very

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#afraid #day #death #every #every day

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all. ↗

— Claudia Black

#black #boyfriend #diamond #down #escort

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman. ↗

— Larry David

#involve #man #most #pants #suffer

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

#ago #comet #computations #did #first

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

#both #doing #glad #had #humiliated