Best Martyrdom Sayings
95 Martyrdom quotes by 82 unique authors
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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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
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Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for…
— Pope Francis
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
— George Eliot
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Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
— Jules Feiffer
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The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped.…
— Ismail Haniyeh
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom…
— Samuel Johnson
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.
— Muqtada al Sadr
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts…
— Lysander Spooner
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
— Mark Twain
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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
— Voltaire
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Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves…
— Ahmed Yassin
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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
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She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She…
— Nicole Krauss
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All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms
— Jean Cocteau
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And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
— George Bernard Shaw
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