Quote by Arthur Schnitzler
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the c

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

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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

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

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

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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