#sacr

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#guard #national #national guard #ones #only

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#committed #europe #head #history #horrors

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#brothers #children #college #families #feel

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#heart #love #sacrifice #sanctify #temple

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#again #book #dead #dog #feet

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#artist #does #doing #help #himself

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#ascetic #deceives #deplorable #egotism #giving

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#freedom #human #like #maintained #political

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? ↗

— Emma Goldman

#anything #criminal #function #glorified #indeed

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. ↗

— Ivan Goncharov

#avoid #dishonest #making #needed #offer