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The people who have really made history are the martyrs. — Aleister Crowley

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did. — Thomas F. Wilson

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. — Saint Augustine

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

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves. — Jean Vanier

I could have been 23 next July
I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost. — Hannah Senesh

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

Islamic history is written in two types of ink. Black for the ink of the scholars and red for the blood of the martyrs! — Me

We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in and loved — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. — Miguel De Unamuno

The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation. — Mahmud Tarzi

We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat

Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans. — Pope Paul VI

I'm not in the business of facilitating the creation of martyrs. That's — John Connolly

Martyrs, you see, are like bees. Their only power comes in death. How many of you would sacrifice yourself not to kill, but merely hurt your enemy? — Pierce Brown

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman

The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs. — Graham Greene

What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled. — Shannon L. Alder

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing. — Warren Eyster

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. — E.W. Howe

The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most. — Edward Snowden

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can't all be saints and martyrs. — Stephenie Meyer

Heroes become traitors, traitors become martyrs. — Julian Barnes

We are, for all our polish, of little
stature, and, as human lives,
compared with authentic martyrs,
of no account. — W. H. Auden

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. — E. Haldeman-Julius

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth. — Miguel Syjuco

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

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime. — Jalal Talabani

We don't know why God chose to deliver Peter from death and James through death. The text doesn't say. — K. Howard Joslin

Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress. — Chester Himes

A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities. — Shane Claiborne

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief — Walter Lippmann

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die. — Anna Quindlen

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. — Hannah More

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness. — John Milton

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives. — Cesar Chavez

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. — Tertullian

Islam will be victorious through the blood of martyrs who spread its light in every dark corner of this earth. — Mohammed Bouyeri

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. — Franz Kafka

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. — Glenn Greenwald

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. — Saint Ambrose

When the hanging's done and the embers at the burning stake are grayed and cold, the conquered bodies of martyrs become the unconquerable ideas. — Nelson Peery

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs. — Mason Cooley

Hence as the poet says: People in love cannot be moved by kindness, And opposition makes them feel like martyrs. — C.S. Lewis

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. — George Whitefield

Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrs
but only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints. — Eduardo Galeano

I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements. — Dan Brown

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. — Thomas Browne

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations. — Craig Ferguson

The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan. — Abdallah II

Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs. — Bhagat Puran Singh

Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs, ... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat

It has been said that a man with an argument is no match for a man with an experience. — DC Talk The Voice Of The Martyrs

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton

Men are bad cyclists, hunters of wild animals, kamikazes, samurai and Christian martyrs. — Christine Gran

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country. — Malcolm X

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. — James L. Farmer Jr.

I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs. — Mahatma Gandhi

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well. — Charles Spurgeon

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs. — Mir-Hossein Mousavi

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. — Albert Camus

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

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms — Jean Cocteau

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The problem with martyrs is that they're all dead — Rosamund Hodge

We are humans, they say we are mortals. Though we do live once but can last forever. — M.H. Rakib

On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs. — Eusebius

I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands. — Mir-Hossein Mousavi

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

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

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs. — Miguel De Unamuno

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

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten — George Orwell

The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants ... the blood of our martyrs will burn you! — Saddam Hussein

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. — Emile M. Cioran

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. — James A. Garfield

And there the stories
Of martyrs awed, as Spagnoletto tainted
His brush with all the blood of all the sainted. — George Gordon Byron