Deregulation freed corporations from legal constraints, and privatization empowered them to govern areas of society from which they had been previously been excluded. By the end of the century, the corporation had become the world's dominant institution.Yet history humbles dominant institutions.
joel bakanThat they may not become too complacent or delighted in married life, he makes them distressed by the shortcomings of their partners, or humbles them through willful offspring, or afflicts them with the want or loss of children. But, if in all these matters he is more merciful to them, he shows them by diseases and dangers how unstable and passing all mortal blessings are, that they may not be puffed up with vain glory.
john calvinHaving a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
Amen I say unto you, unless you turn and become a little child , you will not enter the kingdom of heaven . Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.