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This is a symbolic action, using a legal loophole and participants' self-sacrifice to draw attention to the most serious and urgent crisis humanity has ever faced, the government's inaction on climate change, and the looming catastrophe of airport expansion, gives us no choice and compels us to act. – The Heathrow Pause group	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice. – James R. Cook	added by anonymous 5 years ago
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover. – Andrea Dworkin	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. – James Henry Leigh Hunt	added by anonymous 9 years ago
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. – Max Beerbohm	added by anonymous 10 years ago
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. – John Burroughs	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house. – Josephine Hart, "Sin"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. – Henry Taylor	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. – John Foster Dulles	added by anonymous 14 years ago

This is a symbolic action, using a legal loophole and participants' self-sacrifice to draw attention to the most serious and urgent crisis humanity has ever faced, the government's inaction on climate change, and the looming catastrophe of airport expansion, gives us no choice and compels us to act.

– The Heathrow Pause group

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

– James R. Cook

added by anonymous
5 years ago

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

– Andrea Dworkin

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

– James Henry Leigh Hunt

added by anonymous
9 years ago

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

– Max Beerbohm

added by anonymous
10 years ago

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

– John Burroughs

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.

– Josephine Hart, "Sin"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

– Henry Taylor

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

– George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

– Elizabeth Cady Stanton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

– John Foster Dulles

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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