Quotes About Sacrifice

Paul Nash's 1941 painting The Battle of Britain

His men knew they could trust him not to be officious over such an unfortunate (though by no means isolated) friendly-fire incident, and to tell the dead Guardsman's family that he had died heroically. Sometimes in war, as he was to say later, the truth has to be defended by a bodyguard of lies.

For every American who died, the Japanese lost 6 people, the Germans 11, and the Russians 92.

It was the Russians who provided the oceans of blood necessary to defeat Germany, and it cannot be reiterated enough that out of every five Germans killed in combat – that is, on the battlefield rather than in aerial bombing or through other means – four died on the Eastern Front.

He privately remarked that Boothby 'should join a bomb disposal squad as the best way of rehabilitating himself in the eyes of his fellow men. After all, the bombs might not go off.'133 It sounded cruel, but that is much what he himself had done in 1915, when the six-week average life-expectancy for new officers on the Western Front was not dissimilar to that of bomb-disposal squads in the Second World War.

In the calendar year 1943, when 70,000 Western servicemen, including bomber crews, died fighting Germany, two million Russian soldiers were killed, nearly thirty times the number.

By 5 January, a thousand Russian prisoners had been taken, a further 700 soldiers had escaped back to the Russian lines, and over 27,000 had been killed, all for the loss of 900 Finns.

total, around 43,000 officers were killed or imprisoned, although 20,000 were later released.

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They looked like scarecrows,' Slim said of his troops. 'But they looked like soldiers, too.' He also recalled the heart-rending sight of a four-year-old child in Imphal trying to spoon-feed her dead mother from a tin of evaporated milk.

Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior

I would die for Conner Kirk. Sometimes, I think I have died for him dozens of times, over and over again.

He did well, but he couln't afford the blood for a transfusion.

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

The War To End All Wars - Book One - Falling Into Battle Andrew Wareham

The Navy has no consideration for wives, is inclined to deplore their very existence, in fact.

You love her that much,' she stated, not asking. 'That much,' he admitted in a whisper after a long moment of silence.

They didn't teach me how to tend wounds,' she said bitterly. 'They taught me how to kill, telling me that's how I could save people. It was one big lie, Little Horse. They deceived me.

A baptism of fire, the Witcher thought, furiously striking and parrying blows. I was meant to pass through fire for Ciri. And I'm passing through fire in a battle which is of no interest to me at all. Which I don't understand in any way. The fire that was meant to purify me is just scorching my hair and face.

And so it's an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Blood for blood? And for that blood, more blood? A sea of blood? Do you want to drown the world in blood? O naive, damaged girl! Is that how you mean to fight evil, little witcher?

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