“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.”
“People do not lose respect for a man when he's down. They lose it when he refuses to get up.”
“I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?”
“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.”
“A leader is a man or women of integrity who has respect for himself or herself, and his or her followers.”