Word: self-respect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cruel to Nixon to allow this to continue, and it would also have deprived his resignation of one important message: that our institutions remained vital and our procedures democratic. More than enough had been said. The Cabinet owed it to the President not to deprive him of self-respect or his almost certain departure of dignity. So I took the floor as the senior Cabinet officer. "This is a very difficult time for our country," I said. "Our duty is to show confidence. We must demonstrate that the country can go through its constitutional processes. For the sake of foreign...
...disrespect shown by Soviet leaders toward Egyptians but above all because they would surely seek to impede his planned military move or else exploit it for Soviet ends. The following year he fought a war not to acquire a specific sliver of territory but to restore Egypt's self-respect and thereby increase its diplomatic flexibility. Clearly, there had been an intelligence failure. What no one believed?the consumers no more than the producers of intelligence?was the notion of starting an unwinnable war to restore self-respect...
...more than a token gesture. And if one wishes to compare the deal offered to tenants with the mortgage arrangement offered to Faculty members--who can receive funding for Cambridge housing at an incredible 6 percent interest rate--Harvard's position seems almost an insult to any tenants with self-respect...
Within a few years, Sadat managed to overcome these riddles. He went to war when no one thought it possible and, having restored Arab self-respect, he made a peace that no one had dared to imagine. He moved his people toward a partnership with the West, recognizing that a sense of shared values is a more certain spur to support than a defiance based on striking poses. He eschewed romantic posturing in favor of attainable steps. And he shaped the attainable with a fine sense for the dramatic. He understood that a heroic gesture can create a new reality...
...their civic presence. They have sometimes nearly impoverished themselves to anchor their identities in their homes. In a 1920 magazine serial called "More Stately Mansions," a social-climbing wife pouts and wheedles her husband: "Dickie, I've simply got to have it... A nice house gives a man self-respect and confidence." A house of one's own is refuge, a tangible, physical thing that implies stability in a democracy all liquid and stormily insecure. American history has sometimes been a wild ride: a house traditionally served as the private fortress in which to recover, in which...