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Who said this?

Be no man’s lackey. Do not let others tread with impunity on your rights. ... Do not be a parasite or a flatterer or (what really differs from these only in degree) a beggar. ... Bowing or scraping before a man seems in any case to be unworthy of a man. ... Kneeling down or prostrating oneself on the ground, even to show your veneration for heavenly objects, is contrary to the dignity of humanity .... One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterward if people step on him. ...

Self-esteem is a duty of man to himself.

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Immanuel Kant, in The Metaphysics of Morals.

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Steve Jackson - 12/9/2005

It sounds like something Rand would say. But she seemed to think that eveyone except herself was a whim worshipping altruist.

Roderick T. Long - 12/9/2005

Anyway, as noted above, it's not Rand but Kant, "the most evil man in history."

Roderick T. Long - 12/9/2005

Oh duh, it's a reference to Alex Trebek. Never miiiind ....

Roderick T. Long - 12/9/2005

Um ... who is Alex?

Steve Jackson - 12/9/2005

Who is Ayn Rand, Alex?

Common Sense - 12/7/2005

(I paraphrase from memory.) "Those who can look upon Creation without a profound sense of awe are better off dead."

Albert Einstein