Martyrs Quotes

122 quotes by 105 authors

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. — Albert Camus
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. — Emile M. Cioran
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish… — James Madison
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands… — Thomas Jefferson
The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you! — Saddam Hussein
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
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts… — Thomas Jefferson
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. — Tertullian
The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all… — John of Damascus
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. — Schuyler Colfax
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. — E. Haldeman-Julius
Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat
Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die. — Anna Quindlen
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot… — Viktor E. Frankl
The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the… — Alistair Begg
The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always… — Margaret Clitherow
Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind… — Arthur Conan Doyle
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far… — Emile M. Cioran

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