Best Sacrifice Quotes to Inspire Your Selfless Acts - page 33
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.
Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment.
Fred D'Aguiar
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
With the sincere devotion of our employees, Samsung has achieved stellar performances since its foundation.
Lee Kun-hee
We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.
Rick Perry
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.
Andrew Fastow
If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.
Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions.
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
Radhanath Swami
Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.
Mary Baker Eddy
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
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