Forbidding Child Sacrifice

Famous quotes containing the words child and/or sacrifice:

    Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy for the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)