33 Quotes About Humiliation

Experiencing shame and humiliation in your life can change the course you travel in the future and all the encounters you have along the way. These quotes about humiliation remind us to be conscious of the choices we make.

“Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.”

“Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.”

“Don’t ever humiliate a man. If you’re gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That’s the one thing I don’t like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn’t do that to a man.”

“Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver.”

“How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality.”

“Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.”

“I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.”

“I can’t even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous.”

“I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him.”

“In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.”

“Isn’t it funny.I’m enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind.”

“It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.”

“It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.”

“It’s so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn’t going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.”

“I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. ”

“Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. ”

“No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.”

“Nobody has the right to humiliate someone else, period.”

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride.”

“One of the things about crowd work that’s so exciting is when you discover a character in the audience who’s interesting or funny, who you can vibe off of. ”

“Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.”

“The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.”

“The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other.”

“There are so many times in my life when I wish I had the power to destroy anyone who would threaten or seek to humiliate the people I love.”

“There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.”

“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.”

“We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.”

“We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people.”

“Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. ”

“You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.”

“You can’t shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.”

“You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women are the reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.”

“You mustn’t compromise your principles, but you mustn’t humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.”

There is always a way to overcome your shame and humiliation and once again find strength in your life.