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
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
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a Child of Faith. Then she came to… — Maximilian Kolbe 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 Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We have to get out of this cultural mindset of putting badges on ourselves and playing the martyr spinning 1,000 plates. We… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
“No militia or political leader is so powerful - his name never so influential - as when he is dead, enshrined on… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No true Christian can carry within his heart hatred for any of God's children . . . I am as aware as… — Pat Buchanan 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
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
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
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
If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should… — Gregory Palamas 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
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
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
I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy,… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Compare two people, one of whom has been crippled by an accident, the other by an early environmental history which makes him… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“The first that dies is a martyr, and dies for his religion; and of such it may more truly be said than… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
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