Quotes About Sacrifice

La plupart de ceux qui sont morts en héros dans les camps sont des croyants : des

Il est donc possible d'introduire une distinction au milieu des héros et des saints : entre ceux qui désirent que les êtres humains soient les bénéficiaires de leur action – et ceux qui les oublient, n'aspirant qu'à avoir un comportement conforme à l'idéal d'héroïsme ou de sainteté. Kolbe

Those who are marching into the battlefield and are ready to be killed today in the name of democracy, in the name of freedom, in the name of communism, are no different from those who threw themselves to the lions in the arenas. The Romans watched that fun with great joy. How are we different from them? Not a bit. We love it. To kill and to be killed is the foundation of our culture.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Freedom is never free.

A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in

A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself and loves you just the same.

A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.

You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.

Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body. In the end, submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life.

Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left.

You are the one girl that made me risk everything for a future worth having.

We Germans have a history of sacrificing everything for one strong leader," her father had said. "It's our fear of chaos.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

Maps? There are no maps. I go by dark ways, unclean ways. If such a map existed, it would be beyond price. Nameless cults would battle in the low places of the earth for such a price. Dreamers would starve themselves in endless visions seeking its location. Such a map would have to be drawn on the skin of a black he-goat, in virgin's blood, with a brush made of dragon's eyelashes. The cartographer would go mad, and it would profane the hands that touched it.

I know exactly what is at stake, Captain. You are trying to convince yourself that whatever cause you follow is worth that girl's death. I know all about gods, Captain. I know that a god that demands a child's life is not a god worth saving. Choose.