“President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.” CoursesPresidentTalkingSacrificeImportanceSoldierIraqFallenStayingFuneralPresident Bush Author:Dana Milbank
“I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I read about her, but I recall that she immediately took on a definite importance for me. I wanted to sacrifice my life for my country. It seems like foolishness and yet...what happens when we're children is engraved forever on our lives.” ChildrenCountrySeemsHappensAgeWantedRememberForeverOur LivesSacrificeTenImportanceFranceTwelveRecallsDefiniteFoolishnessArcsEngraved Author:Indira Gandhi
“I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to be able to do the kind of things that people of faith did 40 years ago in the heat of the civil rights revolution. This is a moral issue of every bit as much importance requiring every bit as much sacrifice, courage, and energy as that crisis did.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsKindAbleActionPoliticalEnergyBitsMoralIssuesRightsSacrificeRevolutionYears AgoImportanceCrisisCivil RightsHeatUnconventionalMoral IssuesPolitical Action Author:Bill McKibben
“[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his linguistic characteristics, and so on. We cannot determine what is historical and what isn't. As literary critics, we would understand the importance of this for understanding life, destiny. But the historical question must be left with a question mark.” LeftUnderstandingDestinySacrificeMajorsImportanceMarkHistoricalCriticsDetermineCharacteristicsThemeStrandsIsaacQuestion MarkUnderstanding LifeLife Destiny Author:Frank Moore Cross
“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.” IfsMoralSacrificeOughtHappeningsImportance Book:Famine, Affluence, and Morality Source: Famine, Affluence, and Morality