#humiliation

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

По гръбнака й преминаха парливи тръпки. (...) Винаги нещо й подсказваше да се пази от тази чувственост. Ала какво трябваше да пази сега? Една унизена гордост, едно оскърбено честолюбие, една стъпкана любов. ↗

— Димитър Димов

#love #pain #борис #гордост #димитър

These humiliations are the essence of the game. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#game #humiliations #these

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

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#believe #blood #caused #counts #great

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#certain #go #healthy #humiliation #morbidity

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#been #beings #feel #fellow #honoured

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#hearts #holy #holy book #humiliation #implanted