Martyr Quotes

233 Martyr quotes by 190 unique authors

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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