“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
... we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero… — Yasser Arafat 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
"Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has… — Dorothea Singer Copy Share Image
“Forget about afterlife, focus on afterlight, light that is left behind, by your deeds of life.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that… — Jurgen Graf Copy Share Image
Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Justin's testimony about becoming a Christian is that he had been searching various philosophical traditions of the time, and then accidentally encountered… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
To love means being 100 percent responsible for your experience of living, to not be a victim or a martyr, and to… — Harold H. Bloomfield Copy Share Image
Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side… — Abram Joseph Ryan Copy Share Image
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you are in the temple, remember that you are in the living presence of the Lord God, that you stand before… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church". — Anne Askew Copy Share Image
“Death with character has dignity, without it, every breath is burden.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image