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I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

— Penelope Wilton

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

— Tom Conti

I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.

— Kangana Ranaut

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.

— Zygmunt Bauman

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

I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.

— Cecily Strong

I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.

— Debby Ryan

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

— Adam Sandler

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.'

— David O. Russell

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.

— Selma Blair

It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone else is suffering, we like to tuck them away, out of sight. It's a cruel, cruel conditioning. There is no controlling the unfolding of life.

— Sharon Salzberg