ethical sacrifice Quotes

The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

I killed one man to save 100,000.

It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.

To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.

If I have to remove one to save ten, I'll do it in a heartbeat. If I have to waterboard somebody to save a thousand people, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.