Martyr Quotes

233 Martyr quotes by 190 unique authors

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. — E. Haldeman-Julius
The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be… — Anne Boleyn
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to… — Ibn Taymiyyah
Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat
Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die. — Anna Quindlen
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot… — Viktor E. Frankl
The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the… — Alistair Begg
The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always… — Unknown Author
Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind… — Arthur Conan Doyle
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far… — Emile M. Cioran
The people who have really made history are the martyrs. — Aleister Crowley
I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it… — Keri Russell
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can… — Edward Abbey
My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands. — Unknown Author
We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr. — Hugo Chavez
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved. — Alan Furst
He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk… — William J. Clinton
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare… — Elizabeth Charles
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in… — Unknown Author
Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not only those who… — Isaac of Nineveh
I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live. — Gannicus
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and… — Wilfred Owen
For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. — Marc Chagall

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