Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

“I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements.”

— Dan Brown

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

— Mason Cooley

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.

— Mir-Hossein Mousavi

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

— Aleister Crowley

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

— Leo Rosten

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

— George William Curtis

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

— Michael D. O'Brien

Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.

— Bhagat Puran Singh

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

— Tertullian

Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.

— Pope Paul VI

There are martyrs [between Mexican people], now I will canonize two. It is a population that you can't explain, you can't explain it because…

— Pope Francis

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

— James A. Garfield

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

— Jean Vanier

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

— Franz Kafka