Martyr Quotes · Page 7

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

— E. Haldeman-Julius

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

— Paulo Coelho

“You laugh like a little child, but you think like a martyr.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.

— Yasser Arafat

“You have a martyr complex, you know that?" "Course I do. I'm Catholic".”

— T. Baggins

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

— Stephenie Meyer

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If religion had never existed, what then, would people have killed for in the name of religion? What would a martyr have…

— Cole Edward Willis

When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one…

— Oswald Chambers

“إنتفض بين ضلوعي كالثوار فأنا أحبك حتى الشهادة Tremble within my ribs as a revolutionist I love you until you become a martyr.”

— Amany Al-Hallaq

“Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great…

— Honoré de Balzac

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote…

— Alma Gluck

It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

There are martyrs [between Mexican people], now I will canonize two. It is a population that you can't explain, you can't explain…

— Pope Francis

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that…

— Anonymous

I had a martyr complex as a child. I longed to attend the parties my classmates gave. But I was a minister's…

— Agnes Moorehead

“The most critical need of the Church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer…

— Anonymous

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

“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

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

“So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in?…

— Christopher Paolini

Their example gives witness to the fact that baptism commits Christians to participate boldly in the spread of the Kingdom of God,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

“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

I was all for setting up a separate Jewish state in Madagascar or Palestine or someplace, but not to exterminate them. Besides,…

— Julius Streicher

Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely…

— Henry David Thoreau

Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be…

— Saint Basil

The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.

— Mahmud Tarzi

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

— Flannery O'Connor

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

— Stanley Hauerwas

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

— Anne Askew

“after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth”

— Leo Tolstoy

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

— Miguel de Unamuno

“This guilt is a joke, and it’s exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.”

— Ann Aguirre

The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.

— Thomas Szasz

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

— Anna Cora Mowatt

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

— John Barth