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I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for… — Mark Galli
We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and… — Ismail Haniyeh
The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs. — Bhagat Puran Singh
Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood… — Ayelet Shaked
There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries. — Robert Breault
With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr. . . . Al-Hotary, the… — Yasser Arafat
Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent… — Jonah Goldberg
The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as… — Hakim Bey
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. — E. W. Howe
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the… — Nicolas Chamfort
No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution. — Henrik Ibsen
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only… — Giuseppe Mazzini
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has… — Richard Le Gallienne
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's. — O. Henry
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it. — Diane de Poitiers
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs. — Miguel de Unamuno
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him. — John Barth
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for… — Hannah Arendt
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him. — Murray Kempton

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