Self-sacrifice

• Lord Goring: ...self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law. It is so demoralising to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself. They always go to the bad.
  • Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, Act III
• Unquestionably society ought to be so organised as to render self-sacrifice superfluous, for as long as men exist who are ready and willing to make sacrifices, so long will egoists take advantage of these sacrifices.
  • Garrigue Masaryk, Thomas (1919), The Spirit of Russia, II, pp. 15–16 

See also

• Kenosis