The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you! — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde 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
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Walk your wounds, surf your suffering. Amidst self-lovers, martyr is the king.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
He was right – she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. She’d totally been… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder.… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans. — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Inciting Justice by Stewart Stafford They stretched his neck out, On the noose of his ancestors, Bloodied and tattered, he died, No… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you? — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
