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Letter "H" » Human sacrifice
«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.»
Author: John Foster Dulles
(Secretary)
| About:
Humanity,
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
Human sacrifice, idealism, reserve, self-sacrifice, The Finest
«Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
humanitarianism, Human sacrifice, sacrificing
«The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.»
Author: Emma Goldman
| Keywords:
altar, Human sacrifice, maintained, political, Political freedom, religious freedom, sacrifice, The State
«DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not disdain to employ the humble allurement of human sacrifice. Very little is now known about the Druids and their faith. Pliny says their religion, originating in Britain, spread eastward as far as Persia. Caesar says those who desired to study its mysteries went to Britain. Caesar himself went to Britain, but does not appear to have obtained any high preferment in the Druidical Church, although his talent for human sacrifice was considerable. Druids performed their religious rites in groves, and knew nothing of church mortgages and the season-ticket system of pew rents. They were, in short, heathens and --as they were once complacently catalogued by a distinguished prelate of the Church of England --Dissenters.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
disinterested, Human sacrifice, inflict, relieve
«Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
Human sacrifice, performing arts, seizes
«The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Human sacrifice, Parties, podium, podiums, prime, prime time, sacrifices
«All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
admiration, deemed, failings, Gods Themselves, Human sacrifice, regrets, sacrifices, stresses, temptations, They Live, The Gods Themselves, The Limit, This Man, to the limit
«Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Superstition
| Keywords:
excluding, Human sacrifice, imaginary, imaginary being, religious belief, religious beliefs, sacrifices, state of mind
«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.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
automatic, concern, dedicated, dedicates, dedicating, exertions, Human sacrifice, individuals, inevitable, justice, passionate, requires, sacrifice, struggle, The Goal, tireless
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