Martyrdom Quote by William Beckford

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

— Anonymous

“The chopping block was not confined to one era, nor one form or country. There were many types of martyrdoms, spiritual as well as…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“and there the stories Of martyrs awed, as Spagnoletto tainted His brush with all the blood of all the sainted.”

— George Gordon Byron

“But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state and the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“without fighting back. The persecution of the Jews”

— Miklós Nyiszli

“sacralized, violence made sacred in the very act of being expelled; or still, human violence transformed from bad and destructive”

— Cesareo Bandera

“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of the Jews…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“What did religion do to people, to provoke such obstinancy, such hysteria - how did it push people to the stage of torturing themselves…

— Manil Suri

“There, publicly throwing off the mask under which he had hitherto concealed his real character and feelings, he made a speech painting in vivid…

— Livy

“Zahhak reigned for a thousand years, and from end to end the world was his to command. The wise concealed themselves and their deeds,…

— Anonymous

“for when had the true faith been other than persecuted and trampled under foot? If one came to think of it with eyes purified…

— Charles Kingsley

“The idea of a specifically Robespierrist terror was a myth, invented by the Termidoreans, the men who overthrew Robespierre, who themselves were very much…

— Marisa Linton