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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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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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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

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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