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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

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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

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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. – George Eliot

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

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads havent been cut off. – E. M. Cioran

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