Quotes About Sacrifice

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

I never wanted to hurt nobody, all i wanted was the money to save my brothers life

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Al perderte... Al perderte yo a ti Tu y yo hemos perdido: Yo por que tú eras Lo que yo más amaba Y tú por que yo era El que te amaba más. Pero de nosotros dos Tú pierdes más que yo: Porque yo podré amar a otros Como te amaba a ti, Pero a ti no te amarán Como te amaba yo.

Al perderte yo a tí tú y yo hemos perdido: yo porque tú eras lo que yo más amaba y tú porque yo era quien te amaba más. Pero de nosotros dos tú pierdes más que yo: porque yo podré amar a otras como te amaba a tí pero a tí no te amarán como te amaba yo.

la crucifixión (amarrado a la cruz) y una vez, estando en la cruz, se le cayó a Jesús el trapo que lo cubría y quedó desnudo en pelota

His wife spotted the danger in our resolutely bohemian ways. "You have only one year left before you qualify as a doctor and yet you're going away? You have no idea when you'll be back? But why?" We couldn't give precise answers to her desperate questions and this horrified her...

you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed. You are useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you

We must take time to weep for our fallen compañeros while we sharpen our machetes

E se vale la pena rischiare, io mi gioco anche l'ultimo frammento di cuore.

Hasta la victoria siempre! Patria o muerte!

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Dead men by mass production––in one country after another––month after month and year after year. Dead men in winter and dead men in summer. Dead men in such familiar promiscuity that they become monotonous. Dead men in such monstrous infinity that you come almost to hate them. These are the things that you at home need not even try to understand.

Dead men in such familiar promiscuity that they become monotonous. Dead men in such monstrous infinity that you come almost to hate them. Those are the things that you at home need not even try to understand. To you at home they are columns of figures, or he is a near one who went away and just didn't come back. You didn't see him lying so grotesque and pasty beside the gravel road in France. We saw him, saw him by the multiple thousands. That's the difference.

When once it is no longer possible to understand how a man gives his life for his country--and the time will come--then all is over with that faith also, and the idea of the Fatherland is dead; and then, perhaps, we shall be envied, as we envy the saints their inward and irresistible strength.

At the sight of the Neckar slopes wreathed with flowering cherry trees, I had a strong sense of having come home. What a beautiful country it was, and eminently worth our blood and our lives. Never before had I felt its charm so clearly. I had good and serious thoughts, and for the first time I sensed that this war was more than just a great adventure. p. 33

Fraternity means that the father no longer sacrifices the sons; instead the brothers kill one another. Wars between nations have been replaced by civil war. The great settling of accounts, first under national 'pretexts,' led to a rapidly escalating world civil war.

La Guerra, que tantas cosas nos quita, es generosa en este aspecto; nos educa para una comunidad masculina y vuelve a situar en el lugar que les corresponde unos valores que estaban semiolvidados.

Hemos perdido mucho, tal vez todo, también el honor. Nos queda una cosa: el glorioso recuerdo del más maravilloso ejército que jamás haya existido y del más grandioso combate que jamás haya tenido lugar. Mantener su memoria en medio de esta época de renegados y de atrofia moral es el más altivo deber de todo aquel que luchó por la causa de Alemania no sólo con el fusil y la granada de mano sino también con el alma y el corazón.

Yet who would have believed that the gods of fat and butter who filled the cows' udders would gain a following in the Marina--of worshippers, at that, who came from houses in which offerings and sacrifices had long been mocked? The same spirits who deemed themselves strong enough to cut the ties that bound them to their ancestral faith became subjugated to the barbarian idols' spell. The sight of their blind obedience was more repugnant than drunkenness at midday.

Together with a great number of others I had twice paid the piper for inefficient governments. We had carried off neither pay nor glory – just the opposite.