I am as content to die for Gods eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. – John Mason Brown
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. – Albert Camus
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads havent been cut off. – E. M. Cioran
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. – E. M. Cioran
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. – George Eliot
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. – Indira Gandhi
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. – J.B.S. Haldane
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe
What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson
Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by Gods grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. – Bishop Hugh Latimer
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. – Horace Mann
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
There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. – Patrick Henry Pearse
I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows. – Gabriel Peri
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. – Mark Twain
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde
