Sacrifice Greater Good Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. It was the same now. Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia.

Zadie Smith

#6. 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

#7. It's an opportunity that's there for all of us, like a life raft or preserver to hang onto when there's nothing else or no one else around because man, we're human and no matter what, one way or another, everyone of us in our lives, at some point in time, are going to feel alone.

Chuck Ragan

#8. 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

#9. Money is like a mischievous cat; if you chase it around the neighborhood, it eludes you. It hides up a tree, behind the rose bush, or in the garden. However, if you ignore it and focus on what attracts the cat, it comes to you and sits in your lap.

M.J. DeMarco

#10. 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

#11. obliteration of the Negro home. A people thus handicapped ought not to be asked to race with the world, but rather allowed to give all its time and thought to its own social problems.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#12. 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

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

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#14. Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting places I've been, phases I've been through, people I've loved or thought I did.

Mary Schmich

#15. Like so many works that have had a great impact on human thinking, it makes points that, once they are grasped, have a ring of almost self-evident truth; yet they are still blindly ignored by a disconcertingly large proportion of people who should know better.

Erwin Schrodinger

#16. I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you.

Erin Morgenstern

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

Brent Weeks

#18. Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.

Alan Grayson

#19. Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

Constantin Stanislavski

#20. Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did

Irving Kahn

#21. I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

Will.i.am

#22. A clear prayer for which you take sole responsibility has no option but to manifest, if not today or tomorrow, then the day after that.

Pooja Ruprell

#23. The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

Daryl Hall