Quote by R. Scott Bakker Download Open image ““Conceit does not sit well with martyrdom.”” — R. Scott Bakker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Martyrdom is not a beginning, it is an end. The last thing this world needs is more martyrs.” — Zohreh Ghahremani Copy Share Image
“Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“And the only thing worse than the silencing of a martyr, a real martyr – someone with dangerous ideas – is silencing someone who… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Death will come anyway, sooner or later. It doesn't matter whether you were a martyr or died a natural death, peacefully in your bed.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“You really need to get over your martyr complex. One of these days it’s going to get you killed.” — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“[...]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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“I am a warrior of ages, Anasurimbor ... ages. I have dipped my nimil in a thousand hearts. I have ridden both against and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Sorweel: „Then how can we hope to resist him?“ Harweel: „With our swords and our shields. And when those fail us, with spit and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared at the… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
