Choose your martyrs wisely. Because in this medium, they're a dime a dozen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot 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
“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
“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
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
“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
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard 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
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
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
There are martyrs [between Mexican people], now I will canonize two. It is a population that you can't explain, you can't explain… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants,… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their… — George William Curtis 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
“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
“Inciting Justice by Stewart Stafford They stretched his neck out, On the noose of his ancestors, Bloodied and tattered, he died, No… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“was virtually certain of that. As the coach drew into St. Giles’, the sky was an open blue, and the sunlight gleamed… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
“The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It's an insidious idea, this notion that there is life after death. The promise of a reward in the afterlife has been… — Alom Shaha Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
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