Martyrs Quotes

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

Friend, Between, Used

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
John Keats

Love, Religion, Men

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love, Men, Death

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Tertullian

Blood, Church, Seed

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Aleister Crowley

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
Franz Kafka

Body, Cross, Allow

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

Faith, Create, Creates

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.
Ahmed Yassin

Death, Wish, Victory

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

Great, Off, Whose

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.
Hosni Mubarak

Law, Before, Youth

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
Billie Jean King

Work, Live, Person

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
John B. S. Haldane

Humanity, May, Thought

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
Richard Le Gallienne

Religion, History, Fear

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
Mary Harris Jones

Men, Children, Dead

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
James L. Farmer, Jr.

Past, Tomorrow, Living

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
Sadhu Vaswani

Great, God, Smile

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
Schuyler Colfax

Patriotism, Idea, Lives

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