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Letter "H" » humiliation
«For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.»
Author: Dorothy Dix
(Columnist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
all over, bread, burden, callous, cruel, dependency, forced, forlorn, humiliation, humiliations, piteous, scarred, Speeches, stabbing, stabs, stairs, steep, steeped, steeps, unwelcome
«I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.»
Author: Elie Wiesel
(Writer)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
encourages, helps, humiliation, humiliations, oppressor, sides, swore, The Victim, tormented, tormentor, victim, wherever
«Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers»
Author: Merlin Olsen
| About:
Football
| Keywords:
backs, complicated, determining, factors, football, galvanize, galvanizes, gaze, humiliation, motivated, receivers, series
«It is the difference in knowledge that commands respect. This is why the true test of every student lies in the humiliation of his master.»
«Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster»
«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.»
Author: Jean Genet
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
breeze, dropped, gentle wind, ghetto, ghettos, humiliation, invisibility, swept
«Humiliation - The harder you try, the dumber you look.»
«If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
aversion, aversions, feigning, humiliation, incompetent, in public, namely, orders, performs, privately, ritual, solemnly, sympathy, unhesitatingly
«Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Charity,
Christianity,
God,
Kindness,
Religion
| Keywords:
bids, counterpoise, horribly, humiliation, recognise, terribly, vile
«If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
bunion, Christian Scientist, humiliation, scheme, trimmed, Twenty Five, wart, well-off
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