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Self-respect without the respect of others is like a jewel which will not stand the daylight.

— Alfred Nobel

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My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

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A daughter who respects you while you’re alive is far better than a son who performs the rites and rituals after you’re gone.

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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

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Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

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