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sacrifice
«The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.»
«The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.»
«The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.»
Author: Emma Goldman
| Keywords:
altar, Human sacrifice, maintained, political, Political freedom, religious freedom, sacrifice, The State
«The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Sin
| Keywords:
character, commerce, conscience, humanities, humanity, In Humanity, knowledge, moralities, morality, pleasure, pleasure principle, pleasuring, politics, principles, rooting, roots, roots of, root out, sacrifice, science, take root, The Roots, violence, wealth, worship, worshipping
«War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
conscientious, conviction, honorable, imperative, imperatives, justifiable, nation, national, obtained, sacrifice, The Sacrifice, welfare
«There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland.»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| Keywords:
cleanliness, endeavor, fatherland, Fatherlands, honesty, milestone, milestones, obedience, Road to Freedom, sacrifice, sobriety, truthfulness
«The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
at the same time, Christian faith, derision, mutilation, mutilations, pride, sacrifice, self confidence, subjection, The Christian, The Sacrifice
«When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
sacrifice, sacrificing, The Sacrifice, to each other, unity
«The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
acquire, enforced, enforces, enforcing, helplessly, merit, merited, mice, sacrifice, teeth, The Mice