Bodies Quote by Katharine Lee Bates

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Heroes. Brave men and women who lay down their lives for someone else... Our culture understands heroism. But we don’t understand martyrs.”

— DC Talk

“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

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

— Leo Rosten

No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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

“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a hero—a sort…

— Hilary Mantel

“The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten”

— George Orwell

“You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a prior descent…

— Karen Armstrong

The real heros are the ones who die in honor ,but the ones who live share the teachings of their master

— Anonymous

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have…

— Henry Fielding

“Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for…

— Emil Cioran