“The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.” ~… — R.L. Syme 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
“Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.” — Ira N. Barin Copy Share Image
“The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down… — Samuel Johnson 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 Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault,… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
What were you thinking?" I demanded once we were moving to the music. I was trying to ignore his hands. "Do you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr. . .… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The language of martyrdom and persecution is often the language of war. It forces a rupture between “us” and “them” and perpetuates… — James Martin Copy Share Image
Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the… — Jamie Glazov Copy Share Image
“In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
“Martyrdom, which looked so splendid when consummated selon les regles on Tower Hill or Tyburn, before pitying, or (still better) scoffing multitudes,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“In his play Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot describes a martyr as one “who has become an instrument of God,… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting… — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Some people are just addicted to suffering. They think that it will somehow make them happy at the end when really what… — Aokigahara29 Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
“If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
“As anyone who read religious history could attest nothing cemented people's belief faster than a human being dying for his cause. Christ… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter… — Jemima Khan Copy Share Image
![“She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own…” quote by Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ddd/nicole-krauss-920_argument_she-my-mother-was-the-force-around-which_704012.jpg)
