John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Quotes

I don't want nobody getting on my brother. So that's how I take it. If I got to be the one that goes first, oh, well, let it be.

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

There is no better example of an older brother's love than that exhibited in the life of Hyrum Smith for the Prophet Joseph Smith.

I'd take a bullet for just about anyone! If someone pulled out a gun, I'd step in front of you even though I've never met you.

I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?

Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?

A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans…humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle)

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.