Martyr Quotes

233 quotes by 198 authors

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised… — Annie Besant
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. — Albert Camus
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. — Emile M. Cioran
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or… — Emile M. Cioran
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish… — James Madison
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. — Thomas Reed
India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our… — Subhas Chandra Bose
We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death,… — Subhas Chandra Bose
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands… — Thomas Jefferson
The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you! — Saddam Hussein
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe… — Soren Kierkegaard
I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans. — Osama bin Laden
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. — Horace Mann
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. — Benjamin Cardozo
Their example gives witness to the fact that baptism commits Christians to participate boldly in the spread of the Kingdom of God, cooperating if necessary… — Pope Benedict XVI
It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations. — Jackie Robinson

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