#humiliation

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

— Herbert Croly

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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

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Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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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

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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

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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God. ↗

— Kate Millett

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