#humiliating

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty. ↗

— John le Carre

#boy #class family #clothes #dirty #down

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience. ↗

— Ed Markey

#acts #being #captors #conscience #degrading

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#anxiety #definitely #essentially #exists #humiliating

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

#even #folded #great #hands #history

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background! ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#ballot #ballot box #box #confession #contact

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

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

...by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family! ↗

— Jane Austen

#family

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

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

— Jennifer Aniston

#ever #everybody #humiliating #know #very