“It is even possible to be a martyr for the Faith and yet not love Jesus Christ.” — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time. — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“[...]not even dying a martyr's death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross.” — David Platt Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross. — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
“Give a man with a death wish a bottle of whisky and a loaded gun, you get a dead body. Give a… — Kevis Hendrickson Copy Share Image
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver.” She makes sure I don’t speak. “Understand that. The only power they have is… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in?… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. I did not want to remain… — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated… — Isaac Newton 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
If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants,… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
“{ On the death of Hale's esteemed friend and fellow scientist, Luther Burbank . Burbank was much beloved by the population unil… — Wilbur Hale Copy Share Image
“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic… — Dr. Teresa Morgan Copy Share Image
“{ The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll 's funeral, quoted here } Whereas, in the order of nature -- that nature which… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“No one has to be a martyr. On the contrary, everyone should be entirely selfish; not selfish in the normal sense of… — Donna Goddard 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
I will gladly go to jail for a month, in the name of free speech... make me a martyr. — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If the heart bleeds love, bare it, If the martyr's crown fits, wear it. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image