Martyr Quotes

233 Martyr quotes by 190 unique authors

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war… — Glenn Greenwald
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral… — Henry David Thoreau
Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs. — Giuseppe Mazzini
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act… — Charles Caleb Colton
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of… — Ronald Reagan
If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with… — Bill Vaughan
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There… — Henry Timrod
I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. — Mahatma Gandhi
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from… — Rachel Cusk
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. — Franz Kafka
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. — Soren Kierkegaard
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
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to… — Hosni Mubarak
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow… — Florence Nightingale
I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. — Muqtada al Sadr
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. — Oscar Wilde
Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad… — Ahmed Yassin
[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked… — John Steinbeck
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred… — John Keats
Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have… — Anne Frank

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