George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Sacrifice
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Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
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The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
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Since marriage began, the great artist has been known as a bad-boy husband. But he is worse: he is a child-robber, a bloodsucker, a hypocrite and a cheat. Perish the race and wither a thousand women if only the sacrifice of them enable him to act Hamlet better, to paint a finer picture, to write a deeper poem, a greater play, a profounder philosophy!
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.