The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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
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
My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. Im pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible. – George A. Romero
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. – Adrienne Rich
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
