I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Martyrdom is something a Christian resigns himself to, not an end he seeks out.” — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Bullets only kill the body, not the being. The being lives, so long as the cause lives.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
“And the only thing worse than the silencing of a martyr, a real martyr – someone with dangerous ideas – is silencing… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying… — Phil Pringle Copy Share Image
[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Homecoming Sonnet Salutations to all, today is my homecoming, To dwell in grief is treachery on life. I sought plenty escape in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Destroy everything. That's all well and fine, but you got to offer something in it's place. Since I always have a point… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs,… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour,… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
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