It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
“Martyrs, you see, are like bees. Their only power comes in death. How many of you would sacrifice yourself not to kill,… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Always pay homage to the soldier, and the harlot, for they are the martyrs of humanity’s growth” — Michael Lieber Copy Share Image
Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs. — Bhagat Puran Singh Copy Share Image
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are martyrs [between Mexican people], now I will canonize two. It is a population that you can't explain, you can't explain… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Christians are being martyred across the globe at alarmingly increasing rates. The ‘Voices of the Martyrs’ website reveals just how serious this… — John Price Copy Share Image
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
“Those of us with the courage to open ourselves to that much love and not fear it - who can give joy… — Derek Miller Copy Share Image
“We live together,we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
“A carpenter witnessed to me about Christ. He died knowing he had brought only my wife and me to faith, but we… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“Rid of the world’s injustice, and his pain, He rests at last beneath God’s veil of blue: Taken from life when life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Martyrdom is not a beginning, it is an end. The last thing this world needs is more martyrs.” — Zohreh Ghahremani Copy Share Image
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands. — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
“Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrs--but only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We cant all be saints and martyrs. — Jacob Black Copy Share Image
“The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“We are humans, they say we are mortals. Though we do live once but can last forever.” — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
“In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. -James A. Garfield” — Christopher Nuttall Copy Share Image
Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
“Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.” — Hannah Senesh Copy Share Image