Quotes About Sacrifice

As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine.

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.

Very few people know someone who would voluntarily go into a war zone to protect a person he has never met. I know 1,000 of them, and I am proud that they are part of our team.

What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a lot of joy, and there's a lot of loss.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.

Oh Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

Here am I; send me.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest, said "She'll never admit it, but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

The best of a bad bargain.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him.

Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus Going on before.