#humiliation

To write is a humiliation. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#write

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#collapse #deepest #found #give #hope

Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man. ↗

— Rip Torn

#aside #dress #ever #go #gonna

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. ↗

— Simone Weil

#dwelling #extreme #humiliation #into #long

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

— Corazon Aquino

#humiliation #lift #people #pride #themselves

Art is born of humiliation. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#born #humiliation

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#american history #contains #history #humiliation #matter

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. ↗

— Jean Genet

#away #been #breeze #carrying #centuries

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West. ↗

— John Keegan

#about #brought #century #compared #dates

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public. ↗

— Henry Knox

#cannot #forced #happiness #humiliation #line