“ There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. ”
- Padraic Pearse- Copy
- 4K
“ The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. ”
- Arthur Schnitzler- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 303
“ Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. ”
- John Mason Brown- Copy
- 1.5K
“ No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 555
“ What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 25
“ The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ”
- Nathaniel Howe- Copy
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“ Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. ”
- Hugh Latimer- Copy
- 1K
“ 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- Copy
- 282
“ Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
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“ Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.". ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ”
- Jules Feiffer- Copy
- 980
“ Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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