“ A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ The martyrs to vice, far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- 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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“ The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ”
- Nathaniel Howe- Copy
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“ The ink of the scholar and the blood of a martyr are of equal value in heaven. ”
- The Koran- Copy
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“ You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know". ”
- Penn Jillette- 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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“ 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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“ Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all. ”
- Jim Elliot- Copy
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“ We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. ”
- James Farmer- Copy
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“ Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being. ”
- Moses Maimonides- Copy
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“ A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions. ”
- Eva Hoffman- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you've got, is a very pleasant bonus. ”
- Sir Edmund Hillary- Copy
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“ There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer — committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears… ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it… ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time — is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
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“ The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak… ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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