A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
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
The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation. — Mahmud Tarzi Copy Share Image
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. — Flannery O'Connor 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
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
He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
The ego is often deeply involved in the desire to help others. If you do not want your ego to be involved… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again. My life seems to stop there, I see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are in the temple, remember that you are in the living presence of the Lord God, that you stand before… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“No one has to be a martyr. On the contrary, everyone should be entirely selfish; not selfish in the normal sense of… — Donna Goddard 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
