Martyr Quotes

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

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

God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.

For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.

This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.

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

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.

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

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

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.

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

I didn't want to be either the cre'me de la cre'me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.

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

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

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

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

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

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.

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

The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

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

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

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings, and became convinced that Jesus fulfilled these texts.

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

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.

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.