Culture Quote by Starhawk

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Bolesław Prus

“The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.”

— Barry B. Powell

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

— George Sand

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

— Aldous Huxley

“... self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“True sacrifice is the offering of self so that God can realize the power of creativity, compassion and friendship in and through your life.”

— Keith Ward

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

— Veronica Roth

Real sacrifice comes from self sacrifice.

— J. Richard Clarke

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than…

— Andre Gide