"He
who knows himself best esteems
himself least."
Henry
George Bohn (1796-1884)
English
publisher and translator
"Of
all the seven deadly sins, pride is the only
one that has been
completely
rehabilitated. That is why pride is never diagnosed as a disease. The
American
sociologist Joel Best has observed that it is the absence of pride that
constitutes a serious psychological problem. These days virtually every
social and psychological problem is blamed on low self-esteem. The
solution
to poor educational performance, teenage pregnancy, anorexia, crime or
homelessness is to raise the self-esteem
of the victim. In our
self-oriented
world, society continually incites people to take themselves far too
seriously.
That is why pride has become one of the prime virtues of our time."
Frank
Furedi, "Making a virtue of vice", The Spectator, 12 Jan 2002
"In
my day, we didn't
have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had
earned."
Jane Haddam
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