Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting… — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some people are just addicted to suffering. They think that it will somehow make them happy at the end when really what… — Aokigahara29 Copy Share Image
Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
“If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal that the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
“In all their activities Christians are “filled with joy uttering and doing the precepts of the Lord,” teaching their children never to… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
“If you really wish to change the world, you must first change yourself. Look to yourself to find your happiness within. Take… — Christina Copy Share Image
“...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
“My martyrdom is not the selfless kind. I can't look at Filippa, shamed by all the injuries I've inflicted- like a man… — M.L. Rio Copy Share Image
“A martyr is, he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As anyone who read religious history could attest nothing cemented people's belief faster than a human being dying for his cause. Christ… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter… — Jemima Khan Copy Share Image
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
“Once you have built something - something that takes all your passion and will - it becomes more precious to you than… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“IT IS not true martyrdom to be killed in the crossfire of someone else’s war. But Joep Lange should still be seen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Things have been going wrong for years. Only desperation could have driven me to seek the aid of a reprobate like you."… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer Copy Share Image
“Muslims have regularly martyred themselves-would a Christian then agree that Islam is the "truth faith?" Since millions of so-called Pagans have been… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
