Home / Topics / Sacrifice Quotes

Sacrifice Quotes

Browse 5323 quotes about Sacrifice.

Sacrifice Quotes

“The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.”

Men Self Religion Sacrifice Higher Claims Vessel Dharma Recompense

Book:Sadhana

Source: Sadhana

“The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.”

People Facts Suffering Views Accepting Moral Sacrifice Benefits Claims Domination Prevailing

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?”

Kind Progress Sacrifice Citizens Built Claims Aids

Book:The Testing 2: Independent Study

Source: The Testing 2: Independent Study

“Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.”

People Needs Government Jobs Order Liberty Sacrifice Easier Members Claims Congress Officials Republic Colleagues Federal Government Government Officials

Author:Ron Paul

“I renounce all satanic assignments that are directed toward me and my ministry, and I cancel every curse that Satan and his workers have put on me. ... I reject all other blood sacrifices whereby Satan may claim ownership of me.”

May Sacrifice Blood Claims Workers Curse Satan Rejects Ministry Ownership Assignments Renounce Satanic Blood Sacrifice

Book:Walking in Freedom: 21 Days to Securing Your Identity in Christ

Source: Walking in Freedom: 21 Days to Securing Your Identity in Christ

“Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.”

Men Mean Doe Suffering Values Ability Kindness Virtue Progress Sacrifice Worst Claims Mere Generosity Flaws Altruism Incompetence Stagnation

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.”

“Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.”

“Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.”

Earth Turns Individual Interest Generations Sacrifice Amount Claims Sake Expected Passing Passings Bitterness Egotism Momentary Incessantly Felony

Book:Hugo's Works

Source: Hugo's Works

“Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice; therefore we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.”

Source: Steps to Christ for a Joy-Filled Life