Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge… — Adrienne Rich 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
If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Play the man, Mastre Ridley; we shall this day light such a cndle, by God's grace in England, as I trust shall… — Hugh Latimer Copy Share Image
We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded… — Justin Martyr 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
October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No one who has been martyred by the Jews should remain unknown. And no one who has been martyred by the Jews… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice,… — Helen Thompson Woolley Copy Share Image
I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord… — Mehdi Dibaj 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
To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. — John Keats Copy Share Image
I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
