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Why should women not be a martyr for her cause? -- Ernestine Rose
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all. -- Jim Elliot
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. -- Thomas Reed
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. -- Florence Nightingale
It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here. -- Bode Miller
Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years. -- Johannes Tauler
The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender. -- Paulo Coelho
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
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power. -- Elbert Hubbard
Supporters of Osama bin Laden want to rename the Arabian Sea after bin Laden's death. They want to call it "Martyr's Sea." Please, hiding in your bedroom for six years with the blinds closed? How about "Chicken of the Sea? -- Jay Leno
The people who have really made history are the martyrs. -- Aleister Crowley
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. -- Schuyler Colfax
I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. -- Muqtada al Sadr
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. -- Tertullian
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. -- Saint Augustine
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. -- Emile M. Cioran
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. -- Nazr Mohammed
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. -- Nathanael Howe
I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress. -- Chester Himes
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. -- Albert Camus
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. -- Benjamin Cardozo
If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike. -- Bill Dedman
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. -- Stanley Hauerwas
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. -- Horace Mann
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans. -- Osama bin Laden
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. -- Will Rogers
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. -- Emile M. Cioran
God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing. -- Joseph Addison
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool. -- Alice Morse Earle
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. -- Emile M. Cioran
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art. -- Alma Gluck
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. -- Rollo May
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist. -- Annie Besant
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr. -- Peter Ackroyd
O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven! -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew. -- Rachel Cusk
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same. -- Charles Caleb Colton
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it on my own, which I did for a while. I've hired a babysitter before, but as for a full-time caregiver... for a control freak like me, it ain't gonna happen! -- Keri Russell
I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest fear was our children, because there was a tremendous amount of threat and intimidation, and my wife was terrified that the children might be grabbed or assaulted in some way. That was the real fear. -- David Suzuki
Ease off the martyr throttle. -- Jim Butcher
Oh, I'm a martyr to music. -- Dylan Thomas
Being a martyr is highly overrated. -- Patricia Briggs
a self-made martyr is a poor thing. -- Ellen Glasgow
A dead martyr is just another corpse. -- Leo Gordon
A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR. -- Mira Grant
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's. -- O. Henry
It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much. -- Ayn Rand
Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero. -- Amit Kalantri
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die. -- Honore de Balzac
It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations. -- Jackie Robinson
For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. -- Marc Chagall
[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. -- Rita Mae Brown
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. -- E. W. Howe
Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better! -- Neal Shusterman
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. -- Ambrose Bierce
He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unsuspecting doll. -- A.K. Kuykendall
The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr. -- Anonymous
If the heart bleeds love, bare it, If the martyr's crown fits, wear it. -- Roger McGough
The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them. -- Cormac McCarthy
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on. -- Anna Cora Mowatt
We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr. -- Hugo Chavez
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him. -- John Barth
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr. -- John C. Maxwell
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him. -- Murray Kempton
Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr. -- Idries Shah
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution. -- Henrik Ibsen
Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex. -- Christine Feehan
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. -- Ezra Pound
The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr. -- Thomas Szasz
If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known. -- Marilyn Manson
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure. -- Robert Wilson Lynd
I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live. -- Gannicus
We made mad loveshadow loverandom loveand abandoned love.Accidentally like a martyr.The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder. -- Warren Zevon
Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross. -- Martha Ostenso
A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life. -- Sayyid Qutb
The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem. -- Tariq Ramadan
Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them. -- Chuck Hogan
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. -- Henry Suso
I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr... -- Joey Barton
He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run. -- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death. -- Franz Kafka
No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions. -- Hannah Arendt
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The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel. -- Eduard Hanslick
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist. -- Thom Yorke
You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you. -- Margaret Mitchell
Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore. -- Christopher
This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them. -- Yasser Arafat
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible. -- Theodor Adorno
I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. -- William Benton Clulow
We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves. -- William J. Clinton
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven. -- Charles Caleb Colton
It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait. -- Erica Jong
Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor. -- David Mitchell
I didn't want to be either the cre`me de la cre`me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in. -- Joseph Brodsky
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Not all of us are called to die a martyr's death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had. -- Richard Wurmbrand
Islam is not unusual in having a tradition of martyrs. What is unique to Islam is the tradition of murderous martyrdom, in which the individual martyr simultaneously commits suicide and kills others for religious reasons. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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