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“The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality.”

Humans Ends Existence Sacrifice Morality Laughter Criticism Dancing Property Definitions Following Rejection Consideration Justify Celebration Human Existence Subordination Unmotivated

Author:Georges Bataille

“The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.”

Has Beens Wisdom Values Fall Three Politics Lost Economy Sacrifice Wind Amount Property Debt Liberalism Contracts Catastrophe Cautious Sowing Whirlwind

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!”

Law Time Hate Sacrifice Demand I Hate Sells Property Slave Our Time Customs Boast

Author:Fanny Burney

“Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.”

Should Suffering Women Results Sacrifice Ambition Property Accumulation Public Life Embodiment Advent Purifying Restraining

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the altar of patriotism, not only life and property, but also private views and preferences in the interests of the common welfare.”

People Together Wish Interest Views Common Sacrifice Determination Property Welfare Preference Altars

Book:Germany and the Next War

Source: Germany and the Next War

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.”

“I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.”

Freedom Democracy Sacrifice Bravery Property Defense Destroying Offense

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.”

Persons Hope Interest Results Numbers Mistake Sacrifice Produce Expectations Advantage Opposites Infinite Property Avarice Doubtful Great Future

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show with complacency how an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state.”

Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II