Quotes about sacrifice
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. James Anthony Froude
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
sacrifice effort demand
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. Nikola Tesla
sacrifice simple skills
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. John Ruskin
sacrifice enemy generations
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind. Eric Hoffer
sacrifice self realization
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
sacrifice want feels
I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make. Missy Peregrym
sacrifice winning years
Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken, Misty May-Treanor
sacrifice joy may
May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue. Paulo Coelho
sacrifice thinking parent
You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist. Marjane Satrapi
sacrifice white appreciate
The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House. Maureen Dowd
sacrifice men heaven
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven. Matthew Simpson
sacrifice long racism
There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure. Maya Angelou
sacrifice giving religion
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.
sacrifice past important
Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science many of those for whom the pay is the first consideration, and who scorn to sacrifice immediate profit for the freedom of development of their own concept. Moreover, this inner development, important and indispensable as it may be to the world of science in the future, generally does not have the tendency to put a single cent into the pockets of their employers. Norbert Wiener
sacrifice boxing getting-laid
I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? Mike Tyson
sacrifice break-through cost
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it. John Henry Newman