Sake Quotes - page 2

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem. (Carroll Quigley)
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. View quote
John Keats
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. View quote
Martin Luther
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. View quote
Herbie Hancock
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress. View quote
David McCallum
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. View quote
Kofi Annan
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. View quote
Henry Miller
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. (George Bernard Shaw)
Go practice if you please with men and women leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake. View quote
Robert Browning
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist. View quote
Greg Egan
For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country. View quote
Reginald Maudling
Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us. View quote
Walter Benjamin
Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare Blese be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones. View quote
William Shakespeare
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. (John Selden)
The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake. View quote
Franz Boas
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. View quote
John Locke
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? View quote
A. B. Yehoshua