Quotes About Sacrifice

Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.)

Whatever may be noble and heroic in war is found in us, and whatever is evil and horrific in war is also found in us.

If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.

For her, he swallowed the black tea of exile.

Revolutions begin this way, with men willing to fight no matter what the odds, volunteering to give up everything because they had nothing.

Even then I understood that if the rich could only spare all the hungry a bowl of rice, they would be less rich but they would not starve.

Che Guevera and the Maoist PhD saw the Vietnamese revolution only from afar, with all its glamorous makeup, whereas I had seen it close up, denuded. Three million people dead for a revolution was, arguably, worth it, although that was always easier for the living! But three million people dead for this revolution? We had simply traded one Repressive State Apparatus for another one, and the only difference was that it was our own.

They started this war, and now that they're tired of it, they've sold us out, he said, pouring me another drink. But who is there to blame but ourselves? We were foolish enough to think they would keep their word. Now there's nowhere to go but America.

What am I dying for? [...] I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.

There's a reason why saints are martyred. Nobody can stand them.

What am I dying for? he cried back. I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.

I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! if something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.

Don't you get it? They've got no intention of coming back. They know it's a suicide mission. Life's a suicide mission.

Don't worry. I won't forgive you –' Bashir Ali blanched '– because there's nothing to forgive. We are both trapped, you on that side of the door and me on this. Do what they tell you to do, get it over with and go home to your children. Nothing will happen to you. Not now and not later. I give you my word.' There was a pause. 'The word of Ganesh Gaitonde.' By

Both mother and God are verb, not noun.

Dance with the Devil and he may make you the king of Hell.

Death does not come free of charge, for it costs us our life.

Everybody wishes to know, but nobody is ready to pay the price.

Give something to your child if you think he must give it later to those when they need it badly.

Give yourself to God. He can do more with it than you can.

He who shares the meat is always left with the bone.

Marriage is a hunting permit that entitles you to only one dear at a time.

Money has wings but you have to cut your wings to prevent it from flying.

No matter how generous you are, you don't give your wife away.