Fame Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Saint Augustine

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

— Leo Rosten

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

— Leo Gordon

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Being a martyr means loving someone even if it causes your tears.

— 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

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

— Patricia Briggs

People will talk about your disgrace forever. To the honored, dishonor is worse than death.

— Kevin

It's not - martyrdom is not something that is common in the Western world, but in the Middle East, in the Orient, and in…

— Jonathan Roumie

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

— Ellen Glasgow

“Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's committed and…

— John Flanagan

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