The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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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