Humiliation

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People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings
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