Quotes About Sacrifice

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that sh... Wanna fly, you got to give up the sh.. that weighs you down.

Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Dear Mario, I wasted my childhood trying to save your girlfriend. You owe me.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.

I don't know why they say "you have a baby." The baby has you.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President .

I've given myself away, the whole of me, every part.

?i-am l?sat vorb? în amintirea mea, m?car la soroace mai mari, universul întreg s? fie dat lumii de poman?.

O sa-ti dau sah si-ti pierzi optimismul, Imi spune el. - Nu-i nimic, glumesc eu, Fac rocada sentimentelor.

The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

What happened in war? People died -- that's what happened.' He fixed me with that stubborn clenched-jaw look. 'Those who were bravest perished first. Those who believed in something died for belief. Those who survived...' He starts to cough. 'You know that more than twenty million Soviet citizens perished in this war.

I'm an expert in homo sapiens behavior. They can rationalize anything. Take war. They'll bankrupt their economies, sacrifie the best of their young, unleash a bloodbath that impresses even me, at the expense of providing shelter, food, and medicine for their own people. Compared to that, the sale of a few women is trivial.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.