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Quotes About Sacrifice

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
One may gain one truth at the expense of another.
~ Anais Nin
Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.
~ Cornel West
The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The truth is, I'd give it all up to be a rock star.
~ Don Ohlmeyer
It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
~ Jan Karon
Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
~ Jean Cocteau
Sacrifice life to truth.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state
~ Matthew Woodring Stover
In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.
~ Thomas Huxley
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.
~ Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
He might fight under my badge, Bet'anya, but you're the only one he would die for.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx
You are most happy when you can give yourself away to others.
~ Debasish Mridha
It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Vern, it must be demonstrated genuinely.
~ Robert Junior
It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Verb, it must be demonstrated genuinely.
~ Robert Junior