Sacrifice Quotes - page 4

It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son. (Chiang Kai-shek)
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either. View quote
Edmund Burke
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. View quote
Boris Spassky
For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this – to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse. View quote
Lucian
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. View quote
G. H. Hardy
Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state. View quote
Matthew Stover
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities. View quote
Cesare Pavese
The preceding criticism ... justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated” celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality. View quote
Georges Bataille
A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul. View quote
John le Carré
Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist. (Orson Scott Card)
You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. View quote
Eddie Vedder
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation.... The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of shubh. View quote
Sarojini Naidu
Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it. View quote
Joanna Russ
I don't consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I've benefited from the sacrifice of others, ... So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy. View quote
Tim Cook
Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. View quote
James Baldwin
All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer. (Charles Spurgeon)
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. View quote
Lee Iacocca
For the sake of calm in the country, I am ready to sacrifice my own sanity. View quote
Alexander Lukashenko
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Sacrifice and neon lights slave ships don't wait. Love many, trust few, and don't be late. View quote
Tom Morello