Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Atterbury

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

Francis Bacon

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

Fidel Castro

I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Helen Keller

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

Catharine Beecher

We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!

Jared Leto

Well, there was a time when we used to sacrifice goats, but then we all became vegans, so we've been sacrificing tofu before the shows!

Janet Fitch

Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you!

Jane Powell

The greater the value of what we want, the greater the sacrifice we will have to make.

Ernest Renan

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Muriel Rukeyser

Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Kumi Naidoo

I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to the point at which they will be willing to sacrifice something.

Jim Butcher

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

George Herbert

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice...

Buzz Aldrin

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

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.