Quotes from book
Humiliated and Insulted

Name: Humiliated and Insulted
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Original title Униженные и оскорблённые (Russian, 1861)

Humiliated and Insulted — also known in English as The Insulted and Humiliated, The Insulted and the Injured or Injury and Insult — is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1861 in the monthly magazine Vremya.

“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Humiliated and Insulted

The Insulted and the Injured (1861)
Context: If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.