As the Ebola virus continued to consume my patients, I witnessed the horror this disease visits upon its victims, the intense pain and humiliation of those who suffer with it.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
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.
The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it’s public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that’s what I’ve been through.
You get older, you slow down. Failure feels like less of a humiliation and more of a balanced return.
I think that if you’re a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.
‘Man Down’ is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we’re always going to push the humiliation levels.
No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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