Martyrdom Quotes

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. (Indira Gandhi)
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. View quote
Winston Churchill
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. View quote
Lord Byron
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. View quote
Voltaire
Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. View quote
George Eliot
For all have not the gift of martyrdom. View quote
John Dryden
Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. (Oscar Wilde)
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. View quote
Thomas Browne
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? View quote
Jules Feiffer
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised. View quote
E. O. Wilson
When does loyalty become martyrdom? View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence. View quote
Sam Harris
Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive.... Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction. View quote
Ruhollah Khomeini
Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process. (William Winwood Reade)
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. View quote
Bela Lugosi
The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God. View quote
Elaine Pagels
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. View quote
Manfred von Richthofen
What can my enemies do to me? I have in my breast both my heaven and my garden. If I travel they are with me, never leaving me. Imprisonment for me is a chance to be alone with my Lord. To be killed is martyrdom and to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey. View quote
Ibn Taymiyyah