Martyrdom Quotes

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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. — Winston Churchill
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson
The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The… — Charles Spurgeon
The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side… — Thomas Adams
Their example gives witness to the fact that baptism commits Christians to participate boldly in the spread of the Kingdom of God, cooperating if necessary… — Pope Benedict XVI
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. — Arthur Schnitzler
Martyrdom operations - suicide bombings - should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy about it. — Hassan Nasrallah
Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are… — Jemima Khan
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that… — Soren Kierkegaard
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. — Oscar Wilde
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. — Bela Lugosi
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have… — St. Jerome
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. — Indira Gandhi
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific… — David Hilbert
Marriage is for committed lovers, not hostages. Marriage is a sacred relationship created for two people who complete each other spiritually. While it requires sacrificial… — Rob Jackson
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand
The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a… — E. O. Wilson

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