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We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us. — Justin Martyr

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 we're also taught that you're not a martyr if you blow yourself up in a marketplace, because you're killing civilians and other Muslims. — Maajid Nawaz

A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. — G.K. Chesterton

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

Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them. — Chuck Hogan

Being a martyr is highly overrated. — Patricia Briggs

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries. — Robert Breault

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

If the heart bleeds love, bare it,
If the martyr's crown fits, wear it. — Roger McGough

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

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. — Ambrose Bierce

My future chef was an oversized, hysterical hedgehog with a martyr complex. — Ilona Andrews

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

You really need to get over your martyr complex. One of these days it's going to get you killed. — Aimee Carter

It is even possible to be a martyr for the Faith and yet not love Jesus Christ. — Oswald J. Smith

One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad. — Marissa Meyer

Martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with. — Susan Moody

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed. — Leo Rosten

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. — Justin Martyr

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much. — Ayn Rand

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it. — Diane De Poitiers

After the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth — Leo Tolstoy

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. — Ezra Pound

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause? — Ernestine Rose

I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I expected then as I still expect today — Malcolm X

He who leaves his home in search of knowledge walks in the path of God ... and the ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr; — Will Durant

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him. — John Barth

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

One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad — Marissa Meyer

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma. — Jean Cocteau

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. — Schuyler Colfax

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

Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! — Pink Floyd

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

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. — Nazr Mohammed

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

A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR. I'd rather be a living coward any day. — Mira Grant

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. — Rita Mae Brown

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief — Emile M. Cioran

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

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned. — Giordano Bruno

Sound doctrine does not enter into a hard and disobedient heart. — Justin Martyr

Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire. — Robertson Davies

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

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's. — O. Henry

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

These actions can lead to the martyr syndrome, in which people sacrifice their own desires to arouse feelings of pity or guilt in others. — Henry Cloud

People not cry 'coztheir weak,
It Beacaus They've been srong ...
GFor too long !! — Reynilyn

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

Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero. — Amit Kalantri

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

The window went up, a maid-servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains! — Mark Twain

No more martyring myself. — Sharon E. Rainey