Quotes with sacrificed

  • One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
  • The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

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  • George Bernard Shaw The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bryan Robson A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Amy Lowell A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Herbert Hoover Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Olympia Brown He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
    Olympia Brown
    American minister and suffragist (1835 - 1926)
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  • Samuel Johnson In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Dole It is demeaning to the Nation that within the Clinton administration, a corps of the elite who never grew up, never did anything real, never sacrificed, never suffered, and never learned.
    Acceptance speech for Republican presidential nomination, San Diego, 15 August 1996
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Barry Bonds Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.
    Barry Bonds
    American professional baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that democracy. I will dedicate my life to making our democracy reach its fullest potential: that of ensuring equality for all. My family has sacrificed much, and I am willing to do this again if necessary.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Henry Miller One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Cayley So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ernest Renan The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Joseph De Maistre The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Paul Klee When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Heinrich Heine Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • William Somerset Maugham You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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