Martyrdom Quotes
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Martyrdom Quotes & Sayings
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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
The martyrdom of me.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it's not a false idea
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.
— G.K. Chesterton
A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Martyrdom is a lonely business.Jukebox — Saira Viola
The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.
— Isabelle Eberhardt
She appeared to adore Thomas's repugnance to her and to draw it out of him every chance she got as if it added delectably to her martyrdom.
— Flannery O'Connor
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Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.
— Judith Lewis Herman
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.
— Albert Dietrich
Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
— Elisabeth Elliot
I mean who the hell do you think you are, exactly? Saint Roland of the Perpetual Martyrdom?
— Catherine Jinks
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
— Thomas Browne
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
— Barbara Mertz
Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
— Winston S. Churchill
The Bible is always short on details. Didn't Stephen's innate sense of self-preservation thwart his martyrdom at all?
— Hope Jahren
We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in and loved
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
A love of celibacy and a zeal for martyrdom does not bode well for the future of the sect." - regarding the Essenians
— Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
Martyrdom is meaningless in our age.
— John Kennedy Toole
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
— John Mason Brown
To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdom ... p 364 — Melanie Benjamin
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
— Karl Kraus
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
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.
— Evelyn Waugh
Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
— George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
— Thomas Jefferson
A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.
— Warren Eyster
It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
— Soren Kierkegaard
We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.
— George Whitefield
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
— Mark Twain
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
— Vaclav Havel
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
— Thomas Carlyle
When does loyalty become martyrdom?
— Robert Charles Wilson
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.
— Muqtada Al Sadr
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
— Jules Feiffer
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
— Arthur Schnitzler
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
— Bela Lugosi
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
— John Dryden
I have long relied on the comforts of martyrdom.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
— Glenn Greenwald
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
— Indira Gandhi
Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.
— Ira N. Barin
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
— Manfred Von Richthofen
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
— George Bernard Shaw
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
— Lord Byron
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
— Charles Dickens
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
— Jonathan Edwards
For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.
— Leo Rosten
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.
— Evelyn Underhill
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.
— Augustine Of Hippo
