self-respecting
Speech parts
1. self-respecting - Adjective
2. self-respecting - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
having or showing self-esteem
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From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it - the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
As for broken hearts, no self-respecting young woman shows such an ornament at any well regulated breakfast-table; they are kept in dark drawers and closets like other broken furniture.