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There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and hide. The first method is heart-breaking, but sure. The second cannot be relied upon because of the uncomfortable way Disgrace has of turning up at your heels.
Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
Never be bullied into silence.
I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.
When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst
Our character is revealed under pressure.
I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I've had enough experience to know that that's how it goes down. There's no going around it.
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.
Confronting a liar makes a better liar.
After a particularly disheartening day in my freshman year of high school, in which my arrogance had once again stirred up the insecurity of my classmates and driven them to acts of ill-concealed hostility,
I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.
Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
Who replied evasively is betraying himself
When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.
I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry
I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart
God knows what its name was
that tears started to my eyes.
When the words demand attention, they must be delivered!
We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.
To speak the truth, as truth to me appeared, Caused noisy protests, I was hooted down. Such unpleasant incidents occurred That I ran off so as to be alone, Into the wilds. Utterly forsaken, I took at last the Devil for companion.
I had two options One was to remain silent and wait to be killed and the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
Once again I had asked an innocent question, and because of it, I was banished from the conversation.
Only one word described this situation. It was "F'd." Right? But I can't say that word. People who use that word in all its four-letter glory are nothing but common beggars.
Shunned by association.
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.
Confrontation was the stuff of daily life.
Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
There are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.
It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
Confrontation is better than assumptions.
My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
In excess altercation, truth is lost.
Be bloody bold and resolute.
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
Sometimes you have to defend yourself from yourself. When
Rashly,
And praised be rashness for it
let us know,
Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
Confrontation is better than suspicions.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Because I dared.
Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.
Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.
A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
I don't like being shouted at.
Mortals can face many things, but they cannot face their true identity.
I listened to the whine in my voice with a detached fascination. It was a false question. No answer would have pacified me. I had simply given in to a perverse need to ask, to expose and torment myself, and as soon as I heard the words, I experienced both relief and humiliation.
It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.
Remember not every face-to-face confrontation needs a verbal response
I've been outed as a Christian.
I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
Face to the reality.
One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?
I was abruptly recognized as nonthreatening, brusquely advised to fuck off, and off I duly and promptly fucked.
Adversity Isn't to Be Avoided
I should not have called you a menace. I'm afraid I allowed my temper to get the best of me, and I spoke out of anger."
Arabella's eyes turned a little misty. "That's when the truth comes out the loudest.
When the situation is obscure, attack
The truth is a stranger...Not always welcome by daylight.
Have a courage to repulse those people who dare to affront you because everyone has an Achilles' heel. Outshine them, and let your light shine on their damned faces, INTENSELY.
bringing attention
It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.
I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.
Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.
Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.
In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.
I saw for the first time that I could stop giving people the power to make me feel disrespected. In my anger I began to see the absurdity of allowing this boy to shame me.
Revealing the truth is like lighting a match, it can bring light or it can set your world on fire.
In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see.
To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
I was punished for communicating,
It is just as valuable to be censured by friends as it is splendid to be praised by enemies. We desire praise from those who do not know us, but from friends we want the truth.
Confrontation while lounging in bed.
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
Retaliation is a dog chasing its tail
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.
Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world
I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.
Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly
I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it head-on ... We dealt with it. It's over. And now we're moving on.
There is a pivotal point in every interaction between humans which sets the course in their relationship. Do you hide or do you shine? Which way are you going to go?
Hide or shine?
The Truth is first rejected. Then finally accepted.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be outraged by silence.
expelled from the garden.
Conquer a liar with truth.
Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to speak and a moment to accept with silent dignity.
My life
has appeared unclothed in court,
detail by detail,
death-bone witness by death-bone witness,
and I was shamed at the verdict ...
Whenever anyone criticized me I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension. I always accepted the attack in silence, though inwardly so terrified as almost to be out of my mind.
Who Dares Wins...
I Dared...
Words spoken by many, but realised by few..
Courage cannot be unveiled without reality
A story that must be told never forgives silence.
It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestions, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.