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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
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
— Henrik Ibsen
But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Prophet (PBUH) considered the ink of a scholar to be holier than the blood of a martyr.
— Imran Khan
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,Sharp Roman road to Paradise,
Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll
With all my flesh, and keep my soul. — Stevie Smith
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
I've poured my heart out on this page. Now burn it and destroy the evidence that anyone ever cared this much for you.
— Kate McGahan
You're wallowing in guilt and he's playing the martyr. It's like living in the middle of Hamlet.
— Susan Mallery
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
— Muqtada Al Sadr
A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The Captain: A martyr, Lavinia, is a fool. Your death will prove nothing.Lavinia: Then why kill me? — George Bernard Shaw
What a martyr craves more than anything is a sword to fall on, so you sharpen the blade and hold it at just the right angle.
— Kevin Spacey
Being a martyr is highly overrated.
— Patricia Briggs
No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.
— Justin Martyr
We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in and loved
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.
— Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Choosing to be God-like does not mean you choose to be a martyr. And it certainly does not mean you choose to be a victim.
— Neale Donald Walsch
It was hard not to exude the air of a martyr, if one did just slightly more than the other, as it seemed Mickey frequently did.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.
— Gannicus
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
— Murray Kempton
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
— Flannery O'Connor
Life is about discovering things worth dying for.
— Criss Jami
We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.
— Hugo Chavez
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
By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.
— Justin Martyr
Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
— Pink Floyd
One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.
— Marissa Meyer
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
— Diane De Poitiers
Martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.
— Susan Moody
For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.
— Leo Rosten
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
— Schuyler Colfax
Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
— Ernestine Rose
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
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
After the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth
— Leo Tolstoy
Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
— Jean Cocteau
I know why you do what you do, and I get it. But from one ex-martyr to a current martyr ... get over your bullshit and ask for help.
— Samantha Young
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
And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.
— Justin Martyr
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
You really need to get over your martyr complex. One of these days it's going to get you killed.
— Aimee Carter
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
— Miguel De Unamuno
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
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
— Horace Mann
Christ needs people today who are made of martyr stuff! Dare to take a strong, uncompromised stand for Him.
— Billy Graham
Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.
— Bhagat Puran Singh
We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.
— Justin Martyr
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
Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr?
— Louise Penny
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
— Saint Augustine
Ease off the martyr throttle.
— Jim Butcher
He was breaking his fast on white wine and raw onions, in order to keep up the character of martyr, I conclude.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.
— Craig Ferguson
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This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.
— Mir-Hossein Mousavi
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Sound doctrine does not enter into a hard and disobedient heart.
— Justin Martyr
I am no martyr. I am not vengeance. I am Eo's dream.
— Pierce Brown
The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr - smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.
— Henri Barbusse
You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know".
— Penn Jillette
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Better to be a catalyst for change than a martyr for lies.
— Karina Halle
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
There was the stink of burning martyr in the air.
— Lauren Groff
The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.
— Thomas Szasz
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
Playing the martyr doesn't suit you, Leila.''Maybe not, but playing the complete and utter bastard clearly suits you. — Lindsay J. Pryor
No more martyring myself.
— Sharon E. Rainey