Burned Quote by Murray Kempton

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

— E. W. Howe

It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

— Leo Rosten

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

— Leo Gordon

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

— Akbar Ahmed

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where…

— Billie Jean King

If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— George Whitefield

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

— Saint Augustine