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humiliate

«Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.»
«I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.»
«Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.»
«We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.»
«The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.»
«Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed at»
«Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?»
«Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.»
«The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.»
«The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good and wise; and to set up the selfish, the foolish, or the wicked. Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving.»