Quotes
Quotes about Martyr
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.
...we are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spell was activated by unselfish motives, ready to accept the role of martyr or executioner, as the cause demanded.
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.
Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.
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.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when its through, if you are a crook or a martyr.
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
