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1 " That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. "

― Philip Pullman , The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)

2 " Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , North and South

3 " Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another. "

― Pope John Paul II , Love and Responsibility

4 " We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray. "

― Corrie ten Boom

5 " It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.
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― Louis Zukofsky , Collected Fiction

6 " I once asked a rabbi in a large congregation which prayers he used with the dying. " You mean the Mourner's Kaddish?" he asked, referring to the prayer recited on behalf of the deceased. " No," I replied. " I mean the prayers said when a person is actually dying." " Oh," he replied. " I don't know. I've never seen anyone die." He had been a congregational rabbi for almost twenty years. " I only get called when it's time to do the funeral," he explained. Clearly there is much to learn within our traditional religious communities. "

7 " Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p. 21) "

― Robin R. Meyers , Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

8 " Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? "

9 " But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form.

Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle.

Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are. "

― Steve Almond

10 " When I act, I act on behalf of who or what I love. Even when I have to fight against something, it is because of what I value and love. "

― Sharon Weil , ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

11 " In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds. "

― Carl Sagan

12 " You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked. "

― , The Mountain of Ignorance

13 " Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It's a way of silencing critics and evading responsibility - for incompetence or worse. It generates an elite, a band of brothers in whom the national confidence can be reliably vested, unlike the great mass of citizenry on whose behalf the information is presumably made secret in the first place. With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with science. "

― Carl Sagan

14 " I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situation, future events, or whatever is important to you. I have the power and I use the power. I can change the course of your destiny. Contact me and I shall cast a spell for you. Tell me what it is you want and I shall go about my work. Is it someone or something you desire to have? Do you want wealth, or happiness, or a mate E.T.C.Chief OduduwaEmail: cheifoduduwa@gmail.com "

15 " The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them. For example, when the British invaded India, many Indians accepted to work for the British to kill off Indians who resisted their occupation. So in other words, many Indians were hired to kill other Indians on behalf of the enemy for a paycheck. Today, we have mercenaries in Africa, corporate armies from the western world, and unemployed men throughout the Middle East killing their own people - and people of other nations - for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers. "

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16 " Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero. "

― J.Adam Snyder

17 " [The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be. "

18 " Have you ever taken time to think about the commoners who are slaughtered in wars? Any war! Those who didn’t want the war, those who couldn’t say no, even those who have no voice. Why would another man have the power to declare war on behalf of anyone? Why should people be made to die by the mere fact that someone somewhere decides that the answer to a problem is war? Call me a coward, but war is not an answer to any question. "

19 " When you intervene on behalf of your child, your child becomes the victim. You're expressing the message 'You're incapable, you're not sturdy enough to resolve this yourself, you need me to come in and take care of this for you.'" You are, in essence, disempowering your child. "

20 " Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated. "

― John Howard Yoder , When War is Unjust: Being Honest in Just-War Thinking