Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads havent been cut off. – E. M. Cioran
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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
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
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
If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. Its really only to be heard when everyones out enjoying it. – David Byrne
I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times. – Sam Sheppard
Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question. – Emily Greene Balch
