For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him. — John Barth Copy Share Image
“And the only thing worse than the silencing of a martyr, a real martyr – someone with dangerous ideas – is silencing… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only… — Elbert Hubbard 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
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
While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish… — Michael Tait Copy Share Image
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
“Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.… — James Salter 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
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
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
“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
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
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
[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image