Quotes and Sayings about Martyr
"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Poetry, Time, Virtue, Being, Wine)
"It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Time, Poetry, Virtue, Wine)
"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Death, Cause, Martyr)
"Folly loves the martyrdom of fame."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Fame, Folly)
"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Friend, Being, Martyrs)
"The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities."
- Benjamin Cardozo
(Related: Eyes, Martyr)
"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed."
- Winston Churchill
"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Idea, Martyr)
"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Martyrs)
"These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea."
- Schuyler Colfax
(Related: Patriotism, Idea, Martyrs)
"The people who have really made history are the martyrs."
- Aleister Crowley
(Related: History, People, Martyrs)
"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
(Related: Death, Love, Men, Martyrs, Worship)
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
- George Eliot
(Related: History, Men, Persecution)
"Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all."
- Jim Elliot
(Related: Act, First, Man, Martyr, Will)
"The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Fame, Martyr, Prison, Tongue)
"We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs."
- James L. Farmer, Jr.
(Related: Living, Martyrs, Past, Tomorrow)
"Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"
- Jules Feiffer
"When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory."
- John Foxe
(Related: Flowers, Glory, Heaven)
"All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs."
- Richard Le Gallienne
(Related: History, Religion, Fear, Martyrs, Persecution)
"Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning."
- Indira Gandhi
(Related: Beginning, End)
"Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Death, Lust, Martyr)
"Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art."
- Alma Gluck
(Related: Art, Work, Literature, Martyr, Sense, Will)
"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Thought, Belief, Humanity, Martyrs, May, Suspicion, Will)
"Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself."
- David Hilbert
(Related: Science, Time, Religion, May, Result, Will)
"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Truth, Man, Right)
"I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike."
- Mary Harris Jones
(Related: Men, Children, Clothes, Despair, Martyrs, Mothers, Sanity)
"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
(Related: Body, Martyrs)
"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that."
- John Keats
(Related: Love, Men, Religion, Martyrs)
"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Martyr)
"They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique."
- Billie Jean King
(Related: Work, Circumstances, Culture, Earth, Martyrs, Want)
"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
- Karl Kraus
(Related: Matrimony)
"I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans."
- Osama bin Laden
(Related: God, Americans, Fight, Fighting, Heaven, Martyr, Now)
"I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over."
- John Walker Lindh
(Related: Life, Control, Exaggeration)
"Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Enthusiasm, Acting)
"It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle."
- Rollo May
(Related: Courage, Battle, Freedom, Journey, Martyr, Play)
"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."
- Florence Nightingale
(Related: Martyr)
"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage."
- Chuck Palahniuk
(Related: Difference, Press, Suicide)
"For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited."
- Robert Rainy
(Related: Life, Christian, Celibacy, Manners, Separation, Value, World)
"One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted."
- Thomas Reed
(Related: God, Being, Majority, Martyr)
"In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable."
- Manfred von Richthofen
(Related: Car, Summer)
"Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?"
- Ernestine Rose
(Related: Women, Cause, Martyr)
"People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives."
- Jane Rule
(Related: People, Choices, Force)
"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Ability, Famous, Man)
"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Ability, Famous, Man)
"Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years."
- Johannes Tauler
(Related: God, Man, Martyr, Voice, Years)
"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."
- Tertullian
(Related: Church, Blood, Martyrs)
"Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins."
- Mark Twain
"It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs."
- Miguel de Unamuno
(Related: Faith, Martyrs)
"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."
- Voltaire
(Related: Truth)
"Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: Victory, Islam, America, Battle, Countries, Duty, Earth, Sons)
"We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: Victory, End, Road, Will)
"Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: Death, Policy, Victory, Assassination, Leaders, Martyrs, Will)