#sacrifices

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cooperation #ethics #oneself #origin #others

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. ↗

— George Santayana

#good #make #much #nothing #sacrifices

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#american #american values #antipathy #apologize #arrogance

The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#blood #jew #lives #needs #other

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices. ↗

— King Albert II

#betrayed #defend #duty #find #forced

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#flowers #garden #gardening #mother #sacrifices

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#his #industry #instead #judgment #only

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. ↗

— Idi Amin

#any #country #die #law #make

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained? ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#attained #been #civil #dignity #gentlemen

While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#aspects #cannot #certain #courageous #gain