Martyrdom Quotes
95 quotes by 82 authors
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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
— Winston Churchill
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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
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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
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Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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
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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
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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
— Arthur Schnitzler
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
— Bela Lugosi
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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
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
— Indira Gandhi
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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
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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
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Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.
— Ayn Rand
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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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