Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We cant all be saints and martyrs. — Jacob Black Copy Share Image
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“Always pay homage to the soldier, and the harlot, for they are the martyrs of humanity’s growth” — Michael Lieber Copy Share Image
The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs. — Bhagat Puran Singh Copy Share Image
When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last… — Viktor E. Frankl 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
“Christians are being martyred across the globe at alarmingly increasing rates. The ‘Voices of the Martyrs’ website reveals just how serious this… — John Price Copy Share Image
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“... the Istiqlal was powerful, which did not at all coincide with his conception of it, nor with the picture the organization… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“If the generations of mankind suffered and laid down their lives; if martyrs sang in the fire... for no other end than… — William James Copy Share Image
“The world doesn’t need us to be martyrs. The world needs our gifts. It needs our intelligence, our laughter, and yes, our… — Jessica Ortner 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
“Martyrdom is not a beginning, it is an end. The last thing this world needs is more martyrs.” — Zohreh Ghahremani Copy Share Image
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Fanatics are everywhere, in religion, sports and politics. The majority are ready and willing to die for their beliefs. Even in love… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“Martyrs, you see, are like bees. Their only power comes in death. How many of you would sacrifice yourself not to kill,… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“When the hanging's done and the embers at the buring stake are grayed and cold, the conquered bodies of martyrs become the… — Nelson Peery Copy Share Image
We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did. — Thomas F. Wilson 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
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
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