Humiliating Quotes

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Poetry transforms and redeems the common, the hurtful, the humiliating.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'

Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

Rebecca is tripping over stuff and we're just humiliating her every chance we get.

He is not mad. The government is playing games. The people will not be fooled. This is humiliating for Islam. ... Cut off his head.

In modern usage a cuckold is the husband of an unfaithful wife - a far nastier and more humiliating state, apparently than being the wife of a philanderer, for which in fact no word exists.

It's very humiliating. This is more than I can take.

We don't endorse outing and humiliating players who have made a mistake or who may have done something silly at a low point in their lives.

One of the most frustrating -- even humiliating -- things that can happen to job seekers is not to hear one word back from the potential employer after an in-person interview. And it seems to be happening a lot these days.

I don't mind being compared to Tolstoy literarily, but when it comes to Fun Stats it's a little humiliating.

My humiliating profession of decomposer of music.

Even if we were well treated the most humiliating situation was going to the toilet because we had to ask permission. And then later there weren't even any toilets.

This is against Islam. Afghans will be shocked by this news. It is so humiliating. There are very, very dangerous consequences from this. People will be very angry.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.