Belittlement Quotes

The torturing and testing of parents, is followed by shortage (of sustenance), and being driven towards belittlement and humiliation. (Ali al-Hadi)
Since the Nazi era need never have happened, to say that he prophesised it is actually a belittlement of his creative achievement, and only one step up from saying that he caused the whole thing. But nobody could now read The Trial without thinking of the Soviet show trials, or the short works Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony without thinking of the death camps. View quote
Clive James