Martyr Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would…

— Flannery O'Connor

“I'm trying to be kind, you know, for I admired your parents. Fine people, and your father was a fair-minded man to every faith.…

— Robertson Davies

“I am killed them quick, but they are killing me slow. [Jim Browner in 'The Adventure of the Cardboard Box']”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

... we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter…

— Gregory Palamas

“Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.”

— Ezra Pound

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

— Jean Vanier

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

“The first that dies is a martyr, and dies for his religion; and of such it may more truly be said than of soldiers…

— Matthew Henry

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his…

— Alma Gluck

It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any step which…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

— Arthur Schnitzler