Quotes of Martyr - somelinesforyou

“ It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. ”

- Horace Mann

“ It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. ”

- Aeschylus

“ Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs. ”

- Miguel de Unamuno

“ 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

“ 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

“ Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ 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

“ The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ 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

“ Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. ”

- Arthur Schnitzler

“ Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. ”

- Indira Gandhi

“ A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ”

- Nathaniel Howe

“ It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress. ”

- Chester Himes

“ Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. ”

- Alphonse Daudet

“ War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ 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

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

- John Barth

“ 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

“ For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed. ”

- Curt Rosten

“ It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ If you are not honest at all, everybody hates you, and if you are absolutely honest you get martyred. ”

- Don Marquis

“ 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

“ 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

“ Blessed are the money raisers… for in heaven, they shall stand on the right hand of the martyrs. ”

- John R. Molt

“ The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ”

- Aleister Crowley

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

- Emil Cioran
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