Martyrs Quotes

122 Martyrs quotes by 103 unique authors

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well… — Alexandre Dumas
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. — Ezra Pound
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man… — Zadie Smith
Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It's because… — Tana French
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. — Ursula K. Le Guin
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the… — John Green
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. — Glenn Greenwald
There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt… — Ilsa J. Bick
It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only… — Malcolm X
It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. — James L. Farmer, Jr.
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are… — Katharine Lee Bates
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. — Saint Ambrose
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for… — Virginia Postrel
The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates… — George Fetherling
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be… — John Keats
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee,… — Ambrose Bierce
When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs. — Ilkin Santak
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you… — Billie Jean King
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We cant all be saints and martyrs. — Jacob Black
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be… — John Keats
Many a woman shudders ... atthe terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army… — Sarah M Grimke

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