Sacrificing Quotes
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The future of America is based on one generation sacrificing for the next.
— Quoted by David Maraniss in CNBC broadcast,7 Mar1995. The phrase was popularized by Mayhew's former student, Bill Clinton.
A constant effort to keep a party together, without sacrificing either principle or the essentials of basic strategy, is the very stuff of political leadership. Macmillan was canonized for it.
— 1979 FinalTerm:The Labour Government1974-76.
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
Karl Kraus— “In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), p. 74
Modern physics often advances only by sacrificing some of our traditional philosophical convictions.
— Fritz London, Edmond Bauer (1939). La théorie de l'observation en mécanique quantique. Hermann, Paris.
— Translation by John Archibald Wheeler, Wojciech Hubert Zurek (1983). Quantum Theory and Measurement. Princeton University Press. p. 220. ISBN 0-691-08315-0.
I've always paid attention to religion ... because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them — other than goat sacrificing.
brad pitt— As quoted in "A Conversation Runs Through It" by Bruce Handy in Time magazine (13 October 1997)
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
— Address to the students of Brown University, quoted in Ida Tarbell (1904) The History of the Standard Oil Company
The star system has us making pictures with personalities rather than stories, sacrificing everything in order to keep some old bags playing young women.
gregg toland— From an essay Toland wrote for International Photographer arguing that cinematographers needed to be uncompromising.Hilton Als (2006). "The Cameraman". The New Yorker (June 19): 46–51
Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.
george w. bush— Press conference, in response to reporter asking why he hasn't called for any sacrifices from the American people (in the war on terror), and whether he intends to do so. (October 11, 2001)
There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.
warren g. harding— Inaugural address (4 March 1921)
Man every man is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.
Ayn Rand— The Ayn Rand Column ‘Introducing Objectivism’
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
George Bernard Shaw— #179. (Maxims for Revolutionists (1903))
Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.
vitruvius— Chapter IX, Sec. 1
Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.
— Chapter IX, Sec. 1 (Book IV)
I believe that Anarchism and Socialism are both needed in human society that they represent two strong trends in human psychology the trend toward liberty and individual variation, and the trend toward cooperation, sympathy and solidarity , and that therefore they should work together. Socialism greatly needs Anarchism as a critic and to keep it from sacrificing the individual and his originality to the domination of the mass.
— John William Lloyd, in Anarchist Socialism (c. 1914-8), published in Liberty, Vol. 19, No. 6 (June 2005), p. 41
sacrificing good men to journalism is like sending William Faulkner to work for Time magazine.
hunter s. thompson— Letter to Jerome H. Walker (7 December 1958), p. 142
sacrificing anonymity may be the next generation's price for keeping precious liberty, as prior generations paid in blood.
— Hal Norby, as quoted in The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (1998), by David Brin, p. 3
sacrificing anonymity may be the next generation's price for keeping precious liberty, as prior generations paid in blood.
Harl Noby— Harl Noby, the Transparent Society, p.3. Perseus Books Group, 1998.
sacrificing anonymity may be the next generation's price for keeping precious liberty , as prior generations paid in blood.
— Hal Norby, as quoted in The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (1998), by David Brin, p. 3
Yagna – means selfless sacrifice for notable purposes. sacrificing of the ego , selfishsness and material attachments and adopting rational thinking, humane compassion and dedicated creativity for the welfare of all – is indeed the best yagna which should be performed by all human beings.
— In p.4 (The Integrated Science of Yagna)
It was impossible to reconcile the repeal of the Corn Laws by me with the keeping together of the Conservative party, and I had no hesitation in sacrificing the subordinate object, and with it my own political interests.
robert peel— Letter to Lord Aberdeen (19 August, 1847).
— Lord Mahon and Edward Cardwell (eds.), Memoirs by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel. Part II (London: John Murray, 1857), p. 322.
