That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.
– Viet Thanh Nguyen
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- To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think of. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- I don’t need you because I want to save you. I want to save you because I need you to save me. – Anne L Parks
- If to have breasts is to be human, then to save them is to save ourselves. – Florence Williams
- We cannot save ourselves. Only God has the power to save us. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
- We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves. – Vironika Tugaleva
- Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others. – Orrin Woodward
- We’re all the same. We all have the means to save ourselves and carry ourselves home. – TA Miles
- The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. – George Orwell
- We are revolutionaries for peace and freedom not violence. And we are going to fight through creativity rather than aggression. – Nurudeen Ushawu
- Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? – Andy Zaltzman
- Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous. – Niall Ferguson
- Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have. – Victor Serge
- Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries. – Christopher Hitchens
- We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win? – Muriel Rukeyser
- There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good? – Jodi Picoult
- What are you will to sacrifice for success? Whatever it is, don’t sacrifice your values, your morals, your principles. Not worth it. – Richie Norton
- Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. – Morihei Ueshiba
- Change comes with sacrifice… When you want to make a change you must be prepared to make a sacrifice of escaping the comfort zone! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice. – Sheryl Sandberg
- Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I’ll be damned if I’ll let you sacrifice me! – Georgette Heyer
- You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice. – Kris Vallotton
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. – George Bernard Shaw
- If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice – Anonymous
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- A sacrifice is not convenient. If it is something we can easily do, then it is not a sacrifice. – Bidemi MarkMordi
- To sacrifice anything is of great honor. To sacrifice everything is of God. – Todd Stocker
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