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Why should women not be a martyr for her cause? — Ernestine Rose
You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives… — Heinrich Heine
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance… — Vance Havner
Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with… — Wei Jingsheng
To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is… — Abraham Cahan
The ego is often deeply involved in the desire to help others. If you do not want your ego to be involved in this way,… — Leonard Jacobson
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. — Ambrose Bierce
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little… — John B. S. Haldane
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through… — Dada Vaswani
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing… — Theodor Adorno
The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most. — Edward Snowden
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans. — Pope Paul VI
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. — Alphonse de Lamartine
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most… — Charles Caleb Colton
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 intellect… — Charles Caleb Colton
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at… — Friedrich Schiller
God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they… — Joseph Addison
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. — Thomas Jefferson
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. — Hannah More
Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you? — Wyndham Lewis
Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen;… — Christopher
Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the… — Saint Basil
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. — Will Rogers
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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