Martyr Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

And one may say boldly that no man has a right perceptionof any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all…

— Lysander Spooner

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.…

— Samuel Johnson

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

— Voltaire

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do…

— Samuel Johnson

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth…

— H.L. Mencken

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man…

— Anonymous

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

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

— W. Somerset Maugham

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes…

— Robert Green Ingersoll