Martyrdom Quote by John Peter Nettl

“A true martyr is not an opportunist who dies to get a reward of eternal life. A true martyr is a humanist who dies…

— Mouloud Benzadi

“A martyr is someone willing to die for what he believes in. A fanatic is someone willing for you to die for what he…

— Marsha Hinds

“A martyr is, he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it…

— Anonymous

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

— Stanley Hauerwas

“The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”

— R.L. Syme

“And the only thing worse than the silencing of a martyr, a real martyr – someone with dangerous ideas – is silencing someone who…

— Dave Eggers

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

— Leo Gordon

“[...]not even dying a martyr's death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross.”

— David Platt

“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

“I am no martyr upon a cross but i would gladly give my life so others more deserving may live”

— Gannicus from Spartacuss

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

“Politicians who are not contemplating early retirement usually find survival more attractive than martyrdom.”

— Herman E. Talmadge