Atheism Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“The martyr is the exact opposite of the pagan hero personified in the Greek and Germanic heroes … For the pagan hero, a man’s…

— Alain de Benoist

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

— Leo Gordon

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

— George Bernard Shaw

“A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no…

— Michael Novak

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

— Franz Kafka

“Do you know the difference between a hero and a martyr?” Quentin shook his head. “A hero is alive,” Father Harry said. “A martyr…

— Scott Sigler

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a…

— Thom Yorke

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My death shall…

— Herrick Johnson

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

— George Whitefield

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.

— Cesar Chavez