Quote by J.B.S. Haldane
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. – J.B.S. Haldane

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

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

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows. – Gabriel Peri

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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