“ It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
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“ One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. ”
- Thomas Brackett Reed- Copy
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“ And third, it proves for the Kurds that their struggle ended in a way that they can say the blood of their martyrs was not in vain. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both. ”
- Elizabeth Charles- Copy
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“ The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. ”
- Arthur Schnitzler- Copy
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“ The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ”
- Nathaniel Howe- Copy
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“ It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress. ”
- Chester Himes- Copy
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“ Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. ”
- Alphonse Daudet- Copy
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“ War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel. ”
- Eduard Hanslick- Copy
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“ It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him. ”
- John Barth- Copy
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“ The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. 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- Copy
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“ If you are not honest at all, everybody hates you, and if you are absolutely honest you get martyred. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr. ”
- Anne Boleyn- Copy
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“ The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ Blessed are the money raisers… for in heaven, they shall stand on the right hand of the martyrs. ”
- John R. Molt- Copy
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“ Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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