#sake

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. ↗

— Joshua Sylvester

#deceased #delighting #forsaken #ghosts #graves

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. ↗

— Mika Waltari

#come #differ #dread #during #gods

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#demand #interests #making #principle #proletarian

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. ↗

— Carl Andre

#i #mean #needs #ridiculous #sake

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#deeper #effect #fix #had #important

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. ↗

— Harry Browne

#casualty #during #first #forsaken #known

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. ↗

— Steven Brust

#avoid #before #called #conform #conformity

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#doing #i #i see #kids #language

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. ↗

— John Donne

#hold #love #me #sake #tongue

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#britain #enjoy #hard #i #life