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• My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

  George Washington

  Brave, Enemy, Satisfaction

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• Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gratitude, Thinking, Debt

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”

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• Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

  Edmund Burke

  Humility, Humanity

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.170

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• I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Mother, Children, Father

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Airplane, Thinking, Weight

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Dying, Embarrassment

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• Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Long, Age, Pressure

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• it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

  Harriet Martineau

  Suffering, Causes, Illness

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.195

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• Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sex, Disappointment, Spots

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• Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which pain, humiliation and abuse are condensed into digestible spectacles endlessly circulated through extreme sports, reality TV, video games, YouTube postings, and proliferating forms of the new and old media.

  Henry Giroux

  Sports, Pain, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money.

  Ice T

  Nice, Lying, Men

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Roots, Rage, One Word

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Party, What If

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• Spanking doesn't lead to anything in the child, other than anger, a sense of frustration and humiliation. And parents can do better. I'm not saying it should be against the law but parents can do better.

  Sean Hannity

  Children, Frustration, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suffering, Ostracism, Violence

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• Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

  David Mamet

  Doubt, Acting, Encounters

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• The withdrawal that Congress is debating now will only effect whether we leave somewhat gracefully or in complete panic and humiliation. Sistani has already made the decision. The Sunnis will not be coming back into the Iraqi government. The die is cast. The civil war will continue. George W. Bush will leave office a complete embarrassment. And he still won't know what happened to him.

  Cenk Uygur

  War, Government, Office

  "The Straw That Broke Iraq’s Back" by Cenk Uygur, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2007.

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• People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an "empathetic warrior."

  Eve Ensler

  Warrior, People, Stuff

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

  Jackie Chan

  Dog, Past, People

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• When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Doe, Terrorism

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• Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

  Saint Patrick

  Wall, Lying, Compassion

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• After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

  Tracey Gold

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Hate

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• God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Men, Perfect

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• The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

  Alain de Botton

  War, Land, Two

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• If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Expression, People, Identity

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