Martyr Quotations

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

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

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

I have great hopes for him and pray to God that he will finish what his father was unable to finish. Frankly, I hope that my son gets killed and becomes a martyr for the sake of God almighty.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.

He wanted to die here. He said he wanted to be a martyr (for Islam). It was quite clear that he wanted to go similar to a suicide bomber,

I think that ... Senator Helms may really make a martyr out of Bill Weld here, ... Evans and Novak.

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

We are not afraid to be a martyr for this cause.

Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

First he says he wants to die a martyr and now he is begging the jury to spare his life and telling the panel that his dedicated lawyers are out to get him. It doesn't add up and perhaps that's exactly what he has in mind.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

I hope and pray that Terri's legacy is while she had to die, in a sense she was a martyr to protect the rights of many people who otherwise would not have a voice.

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

Ease off the martyr throttle.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

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.

The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.