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

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

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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