Quotes of: Martyrs Keyword

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

Ilustrado

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

Saint Ambrose

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Franz Kafka

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

James L. Farmer, Jr.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Benjamin Cardozo

This guilt is a joke, and it’s exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.

Aftermath

He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unsuspecting doll.

The Possession

I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Rollo May

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Thomas Reed

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire

We are, for all our polish, of little stature, and, as human lives, compared with authentic martyrs, of no account.

W.H. Auden

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

Alma Gluck

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

The Journals of Kierkegaard

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Katharine Lee Bates

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Albert Camus

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.

Billie Jean King

Saying of the Prophet Ink and Blood The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

Caravan of Dreams