The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. — Benjamin Cardozo 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
For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe… — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour,… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
We made mad love shadow love random love and abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse, and the heart… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a… — James Madison 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
We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The hero's pain is something that spurs them to martyr themselves, and an anti-hero's pain is a thing that kind of starts… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared… — Ahmed Yassin Copy Share Image
Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious… — Christopher Copy Share Image
