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The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. -- Albert Schweitzer
Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form. -- Dick Morris
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The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. -- Dave Barry
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. -- Emma Goldman
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable. -- Edgar Ramirez
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
Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell. -- Joyce Meyer
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it. -- Apollonius of Tyana
I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human... even if you're not human. -- Julie Kagawa
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time. -- Ernest Istook
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. -- Felix Adler
When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do. -- Sarah Kay
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. -- Wole Soyinka
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation. -- Louis Sullivan
If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don't burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don't sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet. -- Greg Graffin
Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project. -- A. R. Rahman
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue. -- Dada Vaswani
Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria! -- Bill Murray
The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being. -- Daniel Berrigan
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history. -- Pope John Paul II
Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. -- Andrew Schneider
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. -- Frederick Lenz
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. -- Frederick Lenz
Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice. -- Aldous Huxley
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. -- John Stuart Mill
For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants -- Terence McKenna
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late. -- Katharine Susannah Prichard
A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be. -- Sri Chinmoy
... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life. -- Emma Goldman
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity. -- Thomas Jefferson
Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . . -- Mary McGrory
Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway. -- Cassandra Clare
A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market. -- Simon Davies
A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it. -- Terry Pratchett
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things. -- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization. -- Jacques Maritain
The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless of human sacrifice, runs through the whole of Russian history -- Harrison Salisbury
First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol. -- John Milton

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