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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. – Albert Camus

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I am as content to die for Gods eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. – John Mason Brown

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