“You cannot accomplish anything in this world without power,' he said. 'And power requires sacrifice, focus, and ruthlessness.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“I guess that's what sacrifice is, isn't it? Giving up something valuable in the hopes that others can have something even better.”
Source: Stories of Jedi and Sith
“I am walking a road designed to pave a road that will begin where mine will end.”
“If there is no ideal above personal happiness, no one will sacrifice life for country, civilization, or anything else.”
Source: Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
“All Imperial officers should be prepared to sacrifice their lives to do their duty.”
Source: Lost Stars
“World's light comes from your light,
It comes from the sacrifice of the few.
If these few ever became selfish,
Whole world would drown in dwindling dew.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Martyr's Dilemma
(An Existential Sonnet, 1349)
Abhijit Naskar are two, not one.
Abhijit the person, Naskar the mission.
Abhijit has dreams like an ordinary man,
While Naskar is the dream of world union.
Abhijit put his hopes and dreams away,
So that Naskar could engulf the world.
Abhijit even got dumped by the girl,
Because Naskar couldn't dump the world.
The question is, do I regret all this!
With all honesty - yes, I do on occasion.
All the vastness of Naskar isn't enough,
to make up for the things I missed out on.
The point is, it's okay to have regrets,
You ain't alive till you have regrets.
Yet I never abandoned my duty to the world,
For my mission is bigger than my regrets.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Lying underneath this majestic memorial of military grandeur(Arc de Triomphe) is the "Tomb to the Unknown Soldiers". The edifice affirms the bloody truth that statehood requires triumph, and triumph requires sacrificial death.”
Source: Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
“Unless being a Jew is of absolute significance how can we justify the ultimate price which our people was often forced to pay throughout its history?”
Source: God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“One sacrifice awakens millions, One life resuscitates humanity.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets