Sacrificed Quotes

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

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.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.