Self-respecting Quotes

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.