Word: self-respect
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...RESTRICTED by social pressure, the "savage journey" accelerates downward, focussing Duke's attentions on a degraded physical level. Eating, drinking, and fouling like the rest, he somehow manages to retain a shred of self-respect. It alienates him from them, and causes repulsive hallucinations of lizards, moray eels, and huge reptiles standing in blood-soaked carpets sipping cocktails. The drive for success/money/power has created a world where an "eat the wounded" shark ethic prevails, but Thompson believes its apocalypse is imminent. He watches people burn themselves out in struggles for self-preservation, escaping "meat-hook reality" through dope, booze...
They say in politics that purists never win. But for now Women's Liberation is inside the head, and compromising your head is a futile form of dishonesty. It hurts me to be hard, but I have to defend myself against the old needs so damaging to my feminist self-respect. The security the old needs brought is known and safe; the integrity I have to piece together as a feminist is 'out there' and not so safe. I waver between these two pulls trying to root out the sensibility that shaped...
...city streets that to most urban Americans is unfamiliar: laughter. For although Haitians have lived for almost two centuries with poverty, political turmoil, tyranny and foreign occupation (by the U.S. Marines from 1915 to 1934), they seem to have come through it all with their cheerfulness and self-respect almost miraculously intact...
...country needs responsible government willing to tell it the truth; it must choose the road of courage, not the road of timidity and self-indulgence. The choice on Tuesday is a vital one, and the choice of Senator Kennedy is the right one. It is a question not only of survival in the contest with the Soviets abroad, but of survival at home as a free society; not of prestige, but of self-respect. November...
...from the President. If Senator Truman would withdraw from the race, he could have a seat on the Interstate Commerce Commission, a life appointment at a salary that was a lot more than Senators were paid. Tell them to go to hell,' Dad said. 'For my own self-respect, if nothing else, I must...