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Martyr Quotes

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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.
Authors on Martyr Quotes: Jean Cocteau Miguel de Unamuno Emile M. Cioran Miguel Syjuco Soren Kierkegaard Claude Adrien Helvetius Ernestine Rose Friedrich Nietzsche Thom Yorke Horace Mann Marc Chagall Anna Cora Mowatt Muqtada al Sadr Robert Green Ingersoll Cormac McCarthy Diane de Poitiers Sayyid Qutb Leo Gordon Ayn Rand Murray Kempton Susan Moody Craig Ferguson Dylan Thomas Jim Butcher Thomas Szasz Patricia Briggs Leo Rosten O. Henry Mira Grant Hannah More Bhagat Puran Singh Cesar Chavez John Milton
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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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Oh, I'm a martyr to music.
Dylan Thomas

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

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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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Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
Claude Adrien Helvetius

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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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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 truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno

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

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

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Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.
Giuseppe Mazzini

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

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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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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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Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
Ernestine Rose

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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

29.
Ease off the martyr throttle.
Jim Butcher

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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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

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

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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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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
Alphonse de Lamartine

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

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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno

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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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My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi

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

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All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms
Jean Cocteau

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Being a martyr is highly overrated.
Patricia Briggs

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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