#sacr

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle. ↗

— Aaliyah

#best #doing #feel #i #juggle

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#difficulty #getting #government #honest #honest truth

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. ↗

— Felix Adler

#been #commercial #commercial world #craving #desire

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. ↗

— Lord Acton

#consequences #destitute #evil #injurious #man

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect. ↗

— Felix Adler

#differentiation #diversity #every #freedom #human

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. ↗

— John Amery

#decision #forward #free #go #government

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#gift #given #god #grace #greedy

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. ↗

— Joan of Arc

#believe #dying #fate #life #live

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#believe #clouds #god #holiness #i

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#other #production #sacred #sacrifice #than