Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive... Taking this decision is more deadly than… — Ruhollah Khomeini 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
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. — George Bernard Shaw 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
I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of… — James Balog Copy Share Image
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. — Horace Mann 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
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
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven,… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
It is not suicide; it is martyrdom in the name of God. I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an indication… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of… — Mark Galli 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
“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
Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“God allows the persecution of Christians from time to time in order to grow His garden: to weed out the counterfeits who… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
