Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler Category: Martyr, Martyrdom
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Martyr, Martyrdom
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. – Albert Camus Category: Martyr, Martyrdom
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Martyr, Martyrdom
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. – Richard Dawkins Category: Experience
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them. – Sir Alfred Jules Ayer Category: Morals
