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We live in a culture of destructive transparency.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

With publicity comes humiliation.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.

We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

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.