We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may…

“The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”

— R.L. Syme

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

— Leo Rosten

“Martyrdom is not a beginning, it is an end. The last thing this world needs is more martyrs.”

— Zohreh Ghahremani

“Inciting Justice by Stewart Stafford They stretched his neck out, On the noose of his ancestors, Bloodied and tattered, he died, No invader fealty…

— Stewart Stafford

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded.…

— Emile M. Cioran

I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death…

— Mark Galli

“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Dan Brown

The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die…

— Elaine Pagels

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