“The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands. — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is… — Asma Jahangir 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
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
We made mad love shadow love random love and abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse, and the heart… — Warren Zevon 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
I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me… — Joey Barton 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
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
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
“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
Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not… — Isaac of Nineveh 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
No true Christian can carry within his heart hatred for any of God's children . . . I am as aware as… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it… — Rose Philippine Duchesne 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
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
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
A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life. — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you! — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Russian people, like their Chinese comrades, are well aware of what is going on. And there are tens of millions of their… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder.… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously,… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image
The hero's pain is something that spurs them to martyr themselves, and an anti-hero's pain is a thing that kind of starts… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
