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• About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Sacrifice

• Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.

  Elaine Heffner

  Topics in Mother, Sacrifice

  Tags in Feminism

• Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Other

• If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Marriage, Men

• He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

  Holy Bible

  Topics in Sacrifice

• Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Dissent, Respect, Sacrifice

  Tags in Conflict, Diversity, Nonviolence

• Our opponents in the agricultural industry are very powerful and farm workers are still weak in money and influence. But we have another kind of power that comes from the justice of our cause. So long as we are willing to sacrifice for that cause, so long as we persist in non-violence and work to spread the message of our struggle, then millions of people around the world will respond from their heart, will support our efforts … and in the end we will overcome.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Justice, Power, Sacrifice

  Tags in Nonviolence, Labor

• Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another — too often ending in the loss of both.

  Tryon Edwards

  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Hypocrisy

• When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Marriage

• It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Kindness, Sacrifice, Self Respect, Service

• Love is more than a noun — it is a verb; it is more than a feeling — it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Topics in Love, Sacrifice, Service

  Tags in Compassion, Feeling

• Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Commitment, Justice, Sacrifice, Suffering

• It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Achievement, Effort, Failure, Inspirational, Mistake, Politics, Sacrifice, Success, Work

  Tags in Winning, Integrity/Individuality, Duty, Criticism

• The Roots of Violence:
  Wealth without work,
  Pleasure without conscience,
  Knowledge without character,
  Commerce without morality,
  Science without humanity,
  Worship without sacrifice,
  Politics without principles.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Humanity, Politics, Religion, Sacrifice, Work

  Tags in Nonviolence, Worship, Ethics, Sharing, Character, School, Violence, Virtue, Conscience, Science

• The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Anger, Attitude, Sacrifice

  Tags in Ethics, Hatred, Tolerance, Forgiveness