Causes Quote by Eric Hoffer

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

“When all is said and done, we are in the end absolutely dependent on the universe; and into sacrifices and surrenders of some sort,…

— William James

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

— Starhawk

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

— Ayn Rand

Christian life means sacrifice.

— Pope John XXIII

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

— Georges Bataille

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity, but the…

— Abhijit Naskar

There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people,…

— Robert Nozick

A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

— Frederick Lenz

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

— David Lloyd George

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

— Kenneth E. Boulding