People will always laugh at somebody else`s discomfort. But they only laugh because they have suffered the same indignity themselves or known darn well how it feels. Being a comedian is almost like being a doctor--the more troubles you discover and understand, the more gladness you can bring to an audience.
- Jack CarsonThe 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.
- Ahmed BedierWhat is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you`re subjected to. My God.
- Allen JohnsonTo me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
- George Santayana