Martyrs Quotes
122 quotes by 105 authors
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
— Albert Camus
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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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
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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
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Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
— Elbert Hubbard
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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
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The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!
— Saddam Hussein
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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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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
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
— Tertullian
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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
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These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
— Schuyler Colfax
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Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
— E. Haldeman-Julius
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Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.
— Yasser Arafat
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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