I was profoundly embarrassed by it and did all I could to change it.

Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.

First, humiliation, then humility, he would have said. And then comes humanity as a matter of course.

You learn humility only by accepting humiliations. And you will meet humiliation all through your life. The greatest humiliation is to know that you are nothing. This you come to know when you face God in prayer.

By humiliation alone can Saints be made.

Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.

If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.

All that business was awful, it was a fuckin' humiliation. One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were, and that's what I resent. I didn't know, I didn't foresee. It happened bit by bit, gradually, until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand — the people you hated when you were ten.

"Alright kids, up against the wall. It's time for public humiliation. |teacher

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

He thought the terms fraught with degradation and national humiliation.

"It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness."

Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.