I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church". — Anne Askew Copy Share Image
“after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“This guilt is a joke, and it’s exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.” — Ann Aguirre 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
Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on. — Anna Cora Mowatt Copy Share Image
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him. — John Barth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“There is no great virtue in ignoring your needs unless doing so saves someone else. Otherwise, it just makes you act like… — Chautona Havig Copy Share Image
You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“I always thought you had taken on this role as a knight in shining armor, but I was wrong. You’re just a… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
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
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem. — Tariq Ramadan 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
“He was breaking his fast on white wine and raw onions, in order to keep up the character of martyr, I conclude. ” — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“A martyr is someone willing to die for what he believes in. A fanatic is someone willing for you to die for… — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
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