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
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being… — Thomas Reed Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be either the cre'me de la cre'me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a… — Joseph Brodsky 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
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and… — Katharine Lee Bates 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
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
“Gorky called for the building of a monument to the young martyr, who, the writer said, had ‘understood that a relative by… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I… — John Keats Copy Share Image
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister,… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming,… — Philippe Claudel 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
Justin's testimony about becoming a Christian is that he had been searching various philosophical traditions of the time, and then accidentally encountered… — Larry Hurtado 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
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
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
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
“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
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
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept… — Alan Furst 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
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
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 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
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
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
And one may say boldly that no man has a right perceptionof any truth who has not been reacted on by it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for… — Rachel Scott Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t martyr yourself to Area X, you could only disappear trying, and not even be sure of that.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings,… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
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