#humiliation

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

If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#success #life

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#decided #enormous #feel #films #humiliation

Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation. ↗

— William Goldman

#humiliation #inigo #the-princess-bride #william-goldman #death

Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#humility #leadership #promotion #leadership

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#depression #efforts #entails #fear #fools

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#humiliation #north #overwhelming

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

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. ↗

— Simone Weil

#her #humiliations #i #inflicted #more

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. ↗

— William Greider

#cleansed #democracy #designed #finest #humiliation