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“We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.”

Humans Age Together Term Common Responsibility Wonder Democracy Rights Happened Heard Sacrifice Movement Concepts Ideals Obligation Willingness Common Good Personal Sacrifice

Author:John Rosemond

“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.”

Source: Face

“Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.”

Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838

“Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay”

Humans Looks Grows Half Heard Sacrifice Tree Color Lips Flesh Maps Tenderness Decay Doom Poisonous

Book:Ah Pook is here, and other texts

Source: Ah Pook is here, and other texts

“In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.”

Made Stills Soul Used Culture Force Sound Animal Heard Sacrifice Music Is Singing Instruments Musical Woods Tone Musical Instruments Generator

Author:Joscelyn Godwin

“Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know...It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!”

Knows Soul Earth Spiritual Sun Grace Heard Sacrifice Effects Produce Materials Easier Holy Mass Devotion Marvelous Holy Mass

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.”

Years Lasts Three Process Heard Sacrifice Dying Illusion Supreme Plenty Accomplished Vietnam Three Years Worthwhile Last Words

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”

“The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”