A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We have to get out of this cultural mindset of putting badges on ourselves and playing the martyr spinning 1,000 plates. We… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my… — Polycarp Copy Share Image
Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t martyr yourself to Area X, you could only disappear trying, and not even be sure of that.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for… — Abdallah II Copy Share Image
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet... — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
