Best Martyr Proverbs
233 Martyr quotes by 190 unique authors
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On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot…
— Jodi Picoult
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Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a…
— Iain Pears
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No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man…
— Zadie Smith
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A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.
— Mira Grant
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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able…
— Penn Jillette
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Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It's because…
— Tana French
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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and…
— Henri Barbusse
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If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the…
— John Green
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Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
— Glenn Greenwald
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Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!
— Neal Shusterman
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There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt…
— Ilsa J. Bick
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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.…
— Rollo May
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It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only…
— Malcolm X
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It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
— James L. Farmer, Jr.
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I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest…
— David Suzuki
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The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save…
— Alice Morse Earle
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Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of…
— Johannes Tauler
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His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century Most people feel unworthy of forgiveness. They have a tremendous sense of unworthiness, even if outwardly they…
— Luis Palau
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The difference between a martyr and a cannon fodder is not far from the difference between a scout and a spy.
— Ilkin Santak
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Dare me to jump off of this Jersey bridge I bet you never had a Friday night like this Keep it up, keep it up,…
— Unknown Author
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Pagod ka na ba sa Work? Sa School? Sa Relationship niyo? Magpahinga ka. Buhay mo naman yan eh. Ikaw ang magde-decide kung kailangan mo munang…
— Lheng Aguilar
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