Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time. — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
“I know why you do what you do, and I get it. But from one ex-martyr to a current martyr...get over your… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
“A true martyr is not an opportunist who dies to get a reward of eternal life. A true martyr is a humanist… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“[...]not even dying a martyr's death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross.” — David Platt Copy Share Image
When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in?… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver.” She makes sure I don’t speak. “Understand that. The only power they have is… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“The most critical need of the Church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety.… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
“Homecoming Sonnet Salutations to all, today is my homecoming, To dwell in grief is treachery on life. I sought plenty escape in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see… — John Green Copy Share Image
The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs,… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image