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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“The martyr is the exact opposite of the pagan hero personified in the Greek and Germanic heroes … For the pagan hero,… — Alain de Benoist 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
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This… — John Ortberg 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
A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“In his play Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot describes a martyr as one “who has become an instrument of God,… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of the Spirit-led, Spirit-intoxicaed, Spirit-empowered peole. All of creation… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
“persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his… — Charles Dickens 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
![“[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e5/john-steinbeck-71_angel_cannery-row-s-inhabitants-are-as-the-man_1620410.jpg)
![“I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that…” quote by David LaChapelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f13/david-lachapelle-8697_believe_i-believe-michael-jackson-in-a-sense-is_1089907.jpg)
![“persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart a little more carefully, he would have found he could not resist. Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses…” quote by Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/686/charles-dickens-34_character_persuading-himself-that-he-was-a-most-co_2393256.jpg)
