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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. -- Mark Twain
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. -- Indira Gandhi
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. -- Samuel Johnson
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. -- Lord Byron
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. -- Karl Kraus
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. -- Winston Churchill
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. -- George Bernard Shaw
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. -- Voltaire
Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? -- Jules Feiffer
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. -- Arthur Schnitzler
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. -- Manfred von Richthofen
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. -- George Bernard Shaw
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. -- George Eliot
Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom. -- Ahmed Yassin
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all. -- Therese of Lisieux
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. -- Bela Lugosi
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility. -- Barbara Mertz
Martyrdom is the shortest way of attaining an eternal life. -- Osama bin Laden
Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever. -- George Bernard Shaw
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. -- Charles Dickens
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
Martyrdom operations - suicide bombings - should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy about it. -- Hassan Nasrallah
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life -- St. Jerome
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process. -- William Winwood Reade
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom. -- Muqtada al Sadr
We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory. -- Ahmed Yassin
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. -- Nathanael Howe
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. -- Soren Kierkegaard
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory. -- John Foxe
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good. -- Pope Francis
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself -- David Hilbert
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself. -- David Hilbert
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. -- Robert Rainy
The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation. -- Ismail Haniyeh
Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom. -- Walter Kirn
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement -- Thomas Jefferson
The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God. -- Elaine Pagels
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet. -- John Keats
Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right. -- Lysander Spooner
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The martyrdom of me. -- Chuck Palahniuk
A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident. -- T. S. Eliot
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. -- Thomas Jefferson
We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said. -- John Piper
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. -- Soren Kierkegaard
A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing. -- Warren Eyster
The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements. -- Dan Brown
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body. -- Evelyn Waugh
There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for. -- Albert Dietrich
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. -- Glenn Greenwald
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one. -- Wilfred Owen
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom. -- Ira N. Barin
Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected? -- Shannon L. Alder
Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first? -- Elisabeth Elliot
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. -- Augustine of Hippo
My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose. -- Emily Levine
The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence of divine reality,and he would kill him. -- André Frossard
Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out. -- Hugh Latimer
If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames. -- Antonin Artaud
Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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
If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms. -- Richard Rohr
With no doubt Al Hussain was one of the greatest rebels, for correcting the path of rulers who deviated from the right path. He, by his stance honorably acquired martyrdom martyrdom that free people wish to acquire. -- Leo Tolstoy
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When does loyalty become martyrdom? -- Robert Charles Wilson
Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution. -- Robert A. Heinlein
For all have not the gift of martyrdom. -- John Dryden
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed. -- Leo Rosten
Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Parenthood seems really rewarding... like martyrdom, but without the glamour. -- Dov Davidoff
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom. -- Evelyn Underhill
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom. -- Charles Colson
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young. -- Barbara Mertz
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. -- Vaclav Havel
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell. -- Jonathan Edwards
It's a real job I said. Getting promoted to martyrdom is not the top position. -- Sam Wazan
We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. -- George Whitefield
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. -- Ayn Rand
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. -- George Bernard Shaw
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. -- Thomas Browne
May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom. -- Cyprian
The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom. -- Isabelle Eberhardt
Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life -- W. H. Auden
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. -- Oscar Wilde
You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom. -- Sherman Alexie
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence. -- Sam Harris
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man. -- Thomas Carlyle
I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms. -- Mary Virginia Terhune
In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom -- Mary Ritter Beard
Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom. -- Jemima Khan
Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom! -- Saint Francis de Sales
The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage. -- Lorenzo Snow
Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are hours. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to her family to being a source of pride in a culture of martyrdom. -- Mia Bloom

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