Best victim & sacrifice Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible under a free economy -- and a man's position is determined, not by his productive ability and achievement, but by political pull and force. Under both systems, sacrifice is invoked as a magic, omnipotent solution in any crisis -- and "the public good" is the altar on which victims are immolated.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.”

Ifs Humans May Doe Sometimes Would Be Nations Sacrifice Victim Killing Rate Criminals Civilized Execution

Author:James G. Frazer

“the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.”

World Years Humans Heart Art Two Past Sacrifice Battle Thousand Skins Weight Victim Heavy Warrior Fifty Two Years Mexico Jaguars

Author:Biloine W. Young

“The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.”

Used Purpose Liberty Sacrifice Atheism Fool Female Victim Males Positive Atheism Flesh Priests Intestines

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, and that a free country!”

Ifs May Country Heaven Hours Pleasure Poor Sacrifice Ready Let Me Victim Offering Free Country

Author:John Adams

“I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.”

Made Sacrifice Victim Scapegoat

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.”

Fall Rights Sacrifice Police Victim Sacred Terrorism Officers Police Officer Bathtubs

Author:Edward Snowden

“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.”

“For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.”

Energy Born Sacrifice Comfort Travel Victim Vices Traveller

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Behold Jesus Christ crucified, Who is the only foundation of our hope; He is our Mediator and Advocate; the victim and sacrifice for our sins. He is goodness and patience itself; His mercy is moved by the tears of sinners, and He never refuses pardon and grace to those who ask it with a truly contrite and humbled heart.”

Heart Asks Jesus Christ Sin Grace Sacrifice Tears Goodness Jesus Christ Mercy Victim Foundation Moved Refuse Sinner Pardon Mediators

Author:Carlo Borromeo

“Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered at holy Mass for the sins of the world and for mine. Jesus is the Word - to be spoken. Jesus is the Truth - to be told. Jesus is the Way - to be walked. Jesus is the Light - to be lit. Jesus is the Life - to be lived. Jesus is the Love - to be loved”

World Way Made Light Jesus Sin Sacrifice Mines Holy Mass Crosses Victim Flesh Bread Sacraments Lit Bread Of Life Holy Mass

Author:Mother Teresa

“No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs [e.g. the sacrifice of many victims] of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?”

“The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.”

War Funny Happiness Humanity Sacrifice Victim Performing Thunder Limbs Cannons

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.”

“Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims on the regular doesn't mean we have to, too. French commentators are already calling for DSK to jump back into the country's presidential race and ride a wave of sympathy into office. Really, the stakes are greater than even that political prize. If we accept the narrative that only perfect women are raped, we risk sacrificing justice not only for this woman, but for victims of sexual assault everywhere. After all, nobody's perfect.”

“The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.”

Given Lord Sacrifice Victim Tables Sacred Servant Priests Thankfulness Altars

Author:John Calvin

“I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.”

Jesus Christ Sacrifice Jesus Christ Victim Patient

Author:Silvio Berlusconi

“The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.”

Thinking Giving Art Spirit Sacrifice Students Art Is Victim Species Deceiving Egotism

Author:Alma Gluck

“It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves”

Poor Sacrifice Overcoming Victim Oneself Satisfying

Book:Living in the End Times

Source: Living in the End Times

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