Martyr famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
-- Anna Cora Mowatt -
Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.
-- Bhagat Puran Singh -
Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.
-- Chuck Hogan -
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
-- Diane de Poitiers -
Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
-- Ernestine Rose -
We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.
-- George Whitefield -
Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.
-- Giuseppe Mazzini -
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
-- Hannah More -
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
-- Horace Mann -
The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
-- John Milton -
For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.
-- Leo Rosten -
For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.
-- Marc Chagall -
History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.
-- Miguel Syjuco -
My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.
-- Mir-Hossein Mousavi -
I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
-- Muqtada al Sadr -
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
-- Murray Kempton -
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.
-- O. Henry -
I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
-- Osama bin Laden -
A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.
-- Sayyid Qutb -
martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.
-- Susan Moody -
I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.
-- Thom Yorke -
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
-- Flannery O'Connor
