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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. -- Albert Camus
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. -- Franz Kafka
Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint. -- Charles Duhigg
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. -- E. Haldeman-Julius
Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress. -- Chester Himes
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
The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and SÃ©rbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it. -- George Bernard Shaw
The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always observed, the doctors preached, and Martyrs and confessors witnessed. This is the Church I believe to be true. -- Margaret Clitherow
The people who have really made history are the martyrs. -- Aleister Crowley
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. -- Tertullian
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. -- Emile M. Cioran
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. -- James L. Farmer, Jr.
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. -- Saint Ambrose
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history. -- Katharine Lee Bates
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. -- Richard Le Gallienne
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 you live. Each person's circumstances are unique. -- Billie Jean King
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. -- Mother Jones
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. -- John B. S. Haldane
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. -- John Keats
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well. -- Virginia Postrel
Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs. -- Ahmed Yassin
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
The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at least not on their own; it was either the heart by itself or the whole lot together. -- George Fetherling
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue. -- Dada Vaswani
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law. -- Hosni Mubarak
Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs. -- Mason Cooley
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with. -- Susan Moody
Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations. -- Craig Ferguson
History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth. -- Miguel Syjuco
For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed. -- Leo Rosten
My blood is no different from that of other martyrs. -- Mir-Hossein Mousavi
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. -- Schuyler Colfax
Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries. -- Robert Breault
In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief -- Walter Lippmann
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. -- E. W. Howe
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. -- George Eliot
The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness. -- John Milton
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well. -- Charles Spurgeon
I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. -- Saint Augustine
We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. -- George Whitefield
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. -- Thomas Jefferson
Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma. -- Jean Cocteau
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. -- Elbert Hubbard
We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation. -- Mahmud Tarzi
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can't all be saints and martyrs. -- Stephenie Meyer
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
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. -- Thomas Browne
The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did. -- Thomas F. Wilson
Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs. -- Bhagat Puran Singh
A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities. -- Shane Claiborne
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. -- Ezra Pound
We are, for all our polish, of littlestature, and, as human lives,compared with authentic martyrs,of no account. -- W. H. Auden
I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands. -- Mir-Hossein Mousavi
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. -- James A. Garfield
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. -- Glenn Greenwald
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans. -- Pope Paul VI
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. -- Hannah More
Islam will be victorious through the blood of martyrs who spread its light in every dark corner of this earth. -- Mohammed Bouyeri
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. -- Walt Whitman
The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you! -- Saddam Hussein
The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most. -- Edward Snowden
The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan. -- Abdallah II
Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die. -- Anna Quindlen
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves. -- Jean Vanier
We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime. -- Jalal Talabani
We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives. -- Cesar Chavez
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved. -- Alan Furst
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs. -- Eusebius
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously, bitterly, to exorcise the old monsters. -- Francois Cavanna
The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation. -- Alistair Begg
This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life. -- Black Francis
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any step which would hurt the memories of our martyrs. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country. -- Malcolm X
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs. -- Alexandre Dumas
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers. -- Elizabeth Charles
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. -- Mother Jones
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She can thrive through persecution, but never through peace and plenty. -- L. E. Maxwell
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world. -- William Butler Yeats
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
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
Russian people, like their Chinese comrades, are well aware of what is going on. And there are tens of millions of their martyrs who are reminding them what is to be expected from the West. -- Andre Vltchek
Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants. -- Wei Jingsheng
Pontus , instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God , that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs ). -- Isaac Newton
What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. -- John le Carre
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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