78 Quotes About Martyr

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.

The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.

I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I expected then as I still expect today

My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

I am trying to writea poem in which I am neither a monster nor a martyr

Martyrdom, the fanaticism of being willing to die for one's beliefs, is the essential ingredient in making others want to follow the code left behind by that sacrificial example.

There is nothing glorious in the death of a soldier - it's only a disgusting reminder of our petty and primitive self-centeredness, that keeps separating us from our own kind, simply because of some illusory borders created by illusory governments.

We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in and loved