Quotes About Sacrifice For The Greater Good

#1. I personally find the whole destiny thing to be overrated. It rarely ends well and involves extensive death and sacrifice for the greater good. None of which is really my thing.

Rhonda Sermon

#2. The only life you have the right to sacrifice for the greater good is your own.

Brent Weeks

#3. But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria ...

Bashar Al-Assad

#4. Before you act, listen.
Before you react, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.

William Arthur Ward

#5. He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience
and the truth
higher than life.

Jostein Gaarder

#6. I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#7. If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice in equal measure, be you man or woman, and in this way are we freed from tyranny.

Kathleen Kent

#8. The world isn't black and white, good or bad. The battles that make a real difference are fought in the murky area in between, where the greater good requires brutal sacrifice. Where both the means and the ends are just shadows in a featureless gray landscape. And that was the death of my idealism.

Rachel Vincent

#9. Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

Bill Bruford

#10. Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?

Todd Strasser

#11. Wisdom never stands in the way of a fool.

Rachel Alexander

#12. Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

Evan Williams

#13. The sacrifice 'of' self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice 'for' self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

Gloria Steinem

#15. I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.

Whoopi Goldberg

#16. How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?

Amy Engel

#17. Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

Tom Morello

#18. People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

Chris Hemsworth

#19. The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one or the other is necessary, the former becomes only an apparent, partial interest, and should yield, on the principle that the smaller good ought never to oppose the greater good.

Alexander Hamilton

#20. She did it the hard way.

Bette Davis

#21. A man is what he thinks about all day long

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. For the greater good":
the phrase that always precedes
the greatest evil.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski