Quotes about sacrifice
sacrifice people individual
Each individual should work for himself. People will not sacrifice themselves for the company. They come to work at the company to enjoy themselves. Soichiro Honda
sacrifice scary serendipity
I have absolutely nothing consistent in my life. But that's where serendipity comes in and I love that. One day I'm going to have to sacrifice that to bring life into the world. But the more I can hold off on that, the happier I'll be. It's scary for me. Michelle Rodriguez
sacrifice giving enormous
I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another? Michael Moore
sacrifice victory great-victory
With great victory comes great sacrifice. Theodore Roosevelt
sacrifice men culture
All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils. Theodor Adorno
sacrifice long rewards
Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward. Michael Lewis
sacrifice opportunity order
US opposition to Russia and China has entailed sanctions against Russia, and Russia in turn has made counter-sanctions against Europe. So Europe is essentially sacrificing its opportunities for trade and investment in order to remain part of NATO. It is also agreeing to bomb Syria and the Near East, creating a wave of refugees that it doesn't know what to do with.
sacrifice self society
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole. Eric Hoffer
sacrifice self despair
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
sacrifice self movement
It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.
sacrifice self political
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price. Enoch Powell
sacrifice self people
Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice. James Cook
sacrifice literature littles
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. James Allen
sacrifice law everyday-things
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. James Anthony Froude
sacrifice religion firsts
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
sacrifice men self
That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.
sacrifice technology civilization
Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization. Jacques Maritain
sacrifice people want
People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed. Helle Thorning-Schmidt
sacrifice dancing singing
We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing... Plato
sacrifice careers decision
Would I sacrifice a friendship to take a step forward in my political career? Thus far in my political career, I have been spared from having to make such a decision, thank God. And I can't imagine what it must be like. Martin Schulz
sacrifice men long
Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man. John Stuart Mill
sacrifice married cheerfulness
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. John Selden
sacrifice views ideas
The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed. John Shelby Spong
sacrifice authority service-and-sacrifice
Authority is always built on service and sacrifice. James Hunter
sacrifice unique thinking
A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives. James Fallows
sacrifice world demand
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. Friedrich Durrenmatt
sacrifice years wind
If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy. Franklin D. Roosevelt
sacrifice discipline progress
...We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.
sacrifice long humanity
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.
sacrifice fighting lust
They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.
sacrifice taxation levels
The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite. George Gilder
sacrifice frustration giving
Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs.
sacrifice hatred selfishness
Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme. Nikolai Berdyaev