“To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard”
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“It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master”
― The End of History and the Last Man
― The End of History and the Last Man
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