Martyr Quotes

A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

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

Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.

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

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

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

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

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

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

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

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

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

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

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

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

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.

Ease off the martyr throttle.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

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

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

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.

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

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

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

martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.

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

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

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

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

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

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

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

A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.