Quotes About Sacrifice

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

"You're wounded!" "Nay," the soldier's prideTouched to the quick, he said:"I'm killed, Sire!" And his chief beside,Smiling the boy fell dead.

Just for a handful of silver he left us,Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.

And then how I shall lie through centuries,And hear the blessed mutter of the mass,And see God made and eaten all day long,And feel the steady candle flame, and tasteGood strong thick stupefying incense smoke!

Motherhood All love begins and ends there.

We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free.

The kamikaze pilots had forced the Allies to pay a much higher price than they might have otherwise paid to retake the Philippines, but they did not buy the Emperor or the Japanese one moment of relief from the relentless Allied advance.

The Japanese were aware that there was a tendency among these young men to close their eyes just before the crash, a very human reaction to the situation. They were repeatedly exhorted to keep their eyes open and to continue aiming their aircraft to the last moment. It is impossible to forget that these were very young men on both sides of this story.

Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

Tear out my eyes, oh King, and fix them on the gate of Wu, so that I may see the triumphant entry of Yueh.

For every famous martyr there are thousands more who have inspired neither a religion nor a rebellion, so that if martyrdom does sometimes grant a certain power, it does so unpredictably.

Sacrifice is a ritual, perhaps the most ancient ritual of all; ritual too is a well-spring of power.

In fact it is often wise to choose the most innocent victim possible as a sacrificial goat.

Lo que se hace por amor se hace siempre más allá del bien y del mal. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Más allá del bien y del mal

I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives but that progress in the law may never be made at the price of morally guilty lives.

Legat was praying that Hartmann would be there. He was not sure what he could offer God in return, but it would be something, he promised Him—a different life, a fresh start, a gesture equal to the age.

I doubt they'd kill me. And if they did—well, what does it matter? I'm old, and there could be no better death than in defence of freedom.

O Jesus burning on the lily cross... O night, rawhead and bloodybones night... O night betrayed by darkness not its own.

Fed the fires that consume us now, the fire that will save.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

Las mejores cosas de la vida están por encima del dinero; su precio es la angustia, el sudor y la dedicación, y el precio que exige la más preciosa de de todas las cosas es la vida misma, el costo definitivo para el valor perfecto

TANSTAAFL There ain't no such thing as a free lunch) by Robert Heinlein from his book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Aseguraba que me sorprendería la encantadora muchacha por la que había perdido corazón, mente, alma, razón, talento para cocinar y casi todo lo demás.