For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all. — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm not going to paint myself as an angel, but I feel my colour works against me when I'm up in court.… — Mark Morrison Copy Share Image
If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
“Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the… — Dane Rudhyar Copy Share Image
No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside him, that he forgets his own personal life. A suicide… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men;… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Roland Huntford Copy Share Image
“The world at large is not easily moved to action; it requires many terrible martyrdoms to disturb its equilibrium of dullness; and… — Francisco Ferrer Guardia Copy Share Image
... we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants,… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
