Forgotten Quote by Albert Camus

I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Heroes. Brave men and women who lay down their lives for someone else... Our culture understands heroism. But we don’t understand martyrs.”

— DC Talk

That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living…

— Anthony Burgess

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

— Hannah More

I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.

— Mir-Hossein Mousavi

“A true martyr is not an opportunist who dies to get a reward of eternal life. A true martyr is a humanist who dies…

— Mouloud Benzadi

“The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten”

— George Orwell

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

— Barbara Mertz

“Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrs--but only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints.”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.

— Cesar Chavez