“ The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. ”
- Maggie Kuhn- Copy
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“ The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America. ”
- Roy Wilkins- Copy
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“ Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes… ”
- Gandhi- Copy
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“ Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal — that you can gather votes like box tops — is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
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“ The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves… ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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