Quote by Nelson Peery

“We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living flesh and…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“Why slay the slain? Such may be the question that will arise in the minds of many who see this book.”

— Moncure D. Conway

“To die a martyr is to inject blood into the veins of society”

— Marjane Satrapi

“And yet were you to talk to such a martyr, to the woman who is about to be hanged, even just as she nears…

— Peter Kropotkin

“I was a witness of the execution at Horsemonger-lane this morning. ... I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and…

— Charles Dickens

“Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor’s at the stake.…

— William Shakespeare

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with…

— Victor Hugo

“The bodies of the dead, even of a savage enemy shall not be subjected to indignities by civilized and Christian men.”

— Colonel H. S. Jarrett

“ A Cathedral Façade at Midnight Along the sculptures of the western wall I watched the moonlight creeping: It moved as if it hardly…

— Thomas Hardy

“Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed in my…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“And to crown the whole, you must needs come back and make a martyr of yourself, so now anyone who cares a farthing for…

— Naomi Novik

“Hung be the Heavens in Scarlet”

— Tony Horwitz