#sacrificed

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

— Paul Klee

#art #had #looking #more #probably

Our private property must be sacrificed. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#our #private #private property #property #sacrificed

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. ↗

— Voltaire

#graces #milton #recommended #sacrifice #sacrificed

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#fails #great #hearts #people #revolution

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#am #cabinet #carriage #fill #i

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

#always #expediency #most #principle #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. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bad one #bit #good #idea #people

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

— Yoko Ono

#because #countries #country #culture #every

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away. ↗

— George A. Smith

#far #gives #god #himself #infallible

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

— Amy Lowell

#generation #man #men #must #next