Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Brandy Norwood

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

Author unknown

Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

Donald Trump

I think I made a lot of sacrifices.

Adolf Hitler

You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?

Abraham Lincoln

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Annalee Newitz

Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems around us, but without sacrificing all the niceties of civilization like good restaurants, concert halls, and high-speed Internet access. I'm saying that partly tongue-in-cheek, but I'm also deadly serious. The future of technology is sustainable ecology.

Anita Baker

I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Edmund Burke

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Edward Norton

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

Edward Snowden

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

Edward Snowden

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Nikita Khrushchev

Revolutions are not made for export.

Lizz Winstead

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.