Famous Quotes & Sayings

And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

Molly Ivins

The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

Murray Kempton

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

Julia Ward Howe

Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

Ken Hensley

Sacrifice - the future has it´s price, and today is only yesterday's tomorrow.

Kerry Healey

I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.

Ivan Illich

The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

J. K. Rowling

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

H. L. Mencken

The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.

J. Reuben Clark

I say unto you with all the soberness I can, that we stand in danger of losing our liberties, and that once lost, only blood will bring them back; and we of this church will, in order to keep the Church going forward, have more sacrifices to make, and more persecutions to endure than we have yet known. If the conspiracy comes here it will probably come in its full vigor and there will be a lot of vacant places among those who guide and direct, not only this government, but also this Church of ours.

Gary L. Francione

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Gloria Allred

There is no change without sacrifice.

Francisco Franco

You must sacrifice every thought, very ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.

Howard Schultz

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve,

Howard Schultz

People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

Honore de Balzac

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

James G. Frazer

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

James G. Frazer

For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

Iyanla Vanzant

When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.

Paul Arden

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

Pat Benatar

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

Joseph Sobran

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

Leonardo DiCaprio

It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.

Park Dietz

Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.