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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
A devotee is the individual who attests that the Divine Law of Allah is more precious to him than his own existence.
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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.
Bhagat Puran Singh
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Horace Mann
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A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
Shane Claiborne
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
Albert Camus
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She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
Flannery O'Connor
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History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.
Miguel Syjuco
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It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
Murray Kempton
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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
John Milton
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno
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There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
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No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief
Emile M. Cioran
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
Honore de Balzac
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.
O. Henry
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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Emile M. Cioran
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The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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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
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For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.
Marc Chagall
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Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.
Craig Ferguson
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The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.
Thomas Szasz
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When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
Hannah More
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We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.
Cesar Chavez
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There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.
Robert Breault
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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.
Mira Grant
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Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!
Neal Shusterman
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Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
Anna Cora Mowatt
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
Cormac McCarthy
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It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.
Ayn Rand
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A dead martyr is just another corpse.
Leo Gordon
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martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.
Susan Moody
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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
Jean Cocteau
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For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.
Leo Rosten