Martyr Quotes · Page 8

If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.

— Bill Dedman

“The martyrs died for conscience, but not for liberty.”

— John Bagnell Bury

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I have become my terror, and you my precious lamb and martyr.

— Tool

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.

— Rita Mae Brown

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

— Aleister Crowley

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

— James L. Farmer, Jr

“Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.”

— Ezra Pound

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic…

— Hannah Arendt

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either…

— Emile M. Cioran

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook…

— Will Rogers

And one may say boldly that no man has a right perceptionof any truth who has not been reacted on by it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for…

— Rachel Scott

For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy…

— William Butler Yeats

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a…

— Henry Suso

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living…

— Michael D. O'Brien

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more.…

— John Keats

Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their…

— George William Curtis

Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There…

— Annie Dillard

“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew…

— Flannery O'Connor

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom…

— Lysander Spooner

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared…

— Ahmed Yassin

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at…

— Friedrich Schiller

“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not…

— H.L. Mencken

Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct…

— Adam Parfrey

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

— John Barth

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

— Anna Cora Mowatt

The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.

— Thomas Szasz

“This guilt is a joke, and it’s exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.”

— Ann Aguirre

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

— Miguel de Unamuno

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

— Flannery O'Connor

The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.

— Mahmud Tarzi

“after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth”

— Leo Tolstoy

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

— Anne Askew

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson