A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.