Marriage Quote by Karl Kraus

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

— Ogden Nash

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

Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing…

— Gustave Flaubert

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

— Barbara Mertz

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

— Charles Caleb Colton

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

— Ambrose Bierce

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

— Barbara Mertz

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.

— Rita Mae Brown

“sacralized, violence made sacred in the very act of being expelled; or still, human violence transformed from bad and destructive”

— Cesareo Bandera

“Martyrdom is at the heart of all religion.”

— Dan Brown

You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent…

— Niccolo Machiavelli