He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and…

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

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

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

— James A. Garfield

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

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

— Pope Paul VI

“Christians are being martyred across the globe at alarmingly increasing rates. The ‘Voices of the Martyrs’ website reveals just how serious this killing of…

— John Price

“Actually it is hard to find “martyrs for science.” Though one can find examples under materialist, atheistic systems as, for example, during the French…

— Anonymous

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

— Tertullian

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

— Bhagat Puran Singh

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where…

— Billie Jean King

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

— Saint Ambrose

“I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.”

— Hannah Senesh

“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

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 live together,we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand…

— Aldous Huxley