The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from… — Eduard Hanslick 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
It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised… — Anne Boleyn Copy Share Image
I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers.… — Anonymous 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
Some leaders of denominations are not of the Bride of Christ. They are leaders in a Church in which many have long… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've seen women essentially martyr themselves for the good of the future and the good of their children and, again, the good… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde 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
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and… — Annie Besant 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
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
“If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs,… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Choosing to be God-like does not mean you choose to be a martyr. And it certainly does not mean you choose to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of… — David Mitchell 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
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. — James A. Garfield 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
Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously,… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder.… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Russian people, like their Chinese comrades, are well aware of what is going on. And there are tens of millions of their… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you! — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life. — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven,… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
He was right – she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. She’d totally been… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
