“What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.” IfsKindInterestEnemySacrificeReadyMoralityLetting GoEthicsBehalfInvolving Author:George F. R. Ellis
“An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.” ValuesGivenSacrificeEthicsGiven Up Author:St. Jerome
“The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.” IfsWorldLevelsClassSacrificeEthicsPerformancesDancingIntenseGet UpWork EthicFiniteRehearsal Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“Under the Obama regime, the president and his allies are intentional in pursuing these conflicts from the perspective that you must sacrifice your most sacred beliefs to government the instant you start a business. You have the protection of the First Amendment as an individual, you see – but the instant you start a business, you lose those protections.” FirstsGovernmentReligionPoliticsIndividualBeliefEnergyPresidentLosesWorkSacrificePolicyHealthPerspectiveConflictEthicsCapitalismSacredHuman RightsProtectionIdeologyInstantAlliesRegimesAmendmentsConsumerismFirst Amendment Author:Bobby Jindal
“The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.” PeopleSacrificeDangerEthicsBlindWillingnessWillingness To Sacrifice Author:Carol Gilligan
“One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.” ThinkingKnowsHardSchoolTalkingRightsGenerationsSacrificeAdviceMovementHard WorkWalkingEthicsMy FamilyWorkersMilesBackgroundsCivil RightsVotersBusFeedingCivil Rights MovementMy GenerationHard WorkerRegistrationVoter Registration Author:Eric Thomas
“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.” ArtResponsibilitySacrificeMoralityEthicsOneselfCooperationMoral EthicsMorality And EthicsEthics And Morals Book:Mysticism and Logic Source: Mysticism and Logic
“A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.” MenLoveDoeSacrificeMoralityEthicsAccountsForgivingHarmNever Forgive Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.” WorldHumanityExistenceSacrificeThis WorldStrangeReadyOffersEternalEthicsAll ThingsHatredVictimExcuseAdmireRuinsPrimariesEmptinessThronesVengeanceIdlenessAltarsFanaticsWrecksExistence Of GodNon Existence Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.” BelieveHardBlackJusticeWhitePoorSacrificeHard WorkGrewDiversityEthicsCapitalismBuiltSocial JusticeSlaveMythThriveBlack And WhiteExploitationProtestantsDeluded Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do” KnowsWantShouldSelfInterestDifferencesSacrificeDemandEthicsCharitySelf InterestSelf Sacrifice Author:Michael Josephson