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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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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

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. – Indira Gandhi

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

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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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