She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
I am selfless only to an extent, I can't be a martyr, I have a daughter to raise. — Mukul Dev Copy Share Image
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either… — Emile M. Cioran 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
The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven,… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I… — John Keats Copy Share Image
And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image
If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike. — Bill Dedman 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
It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
