Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Bullets only kill the body, not the being. The being lives, so long as the cause lives.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all. — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm not going to paint myself as an angel, but I feel my colour works against me when I'm up in court.… — Mark Morrison Copy Share Image
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
I had a martyr complex as a child. I longed to attend the parties my classmates gave. But I was a minister's… — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
There are martyrs [between Mexican people], now I will canonize two. It is a population that you can't explain, you can't explain… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The chopping block was not confined to one era, nor one form or country. There were many types of martyrdoms, spiritual as… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands… — Edward Joseph Young Copy Share Image
No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
“Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Martyrdom is something a Christian resigns himself to, not an end he seeks out.” — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did. — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Forget about afterlife, focus on afterlight, light that is left behind, by your deeds of life.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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