90 Quotes About Martyrdom

Lenny's head pounds, in time with the truck's jolts, the women's mouths, the metallic hard-on. The shouts of hate, which he knows in his immortal dove soul are really love, love, love.

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.

Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell

A true martyr is not an opportunist who dies to get a reward of eternal life. A true martyr is a humanist who dies to save a life.

A martyr is someone willing to die for what he believes in. A fanatic is someone willing for you to die for what he believes in.

There are only two types of people in this world: those who die for freedom and those who died for their religions. Both are considered martyrs.

I have only one wish - when death comes, I want it to come in the shape of a bullet, not disease.

No one has to be a martyr. On the contrary, everyone should be entirely selfish; not selfish in the normal sense of the word but selfish in the way of knowing that the spiritual path means we value everything which adds to our own well-being. When we love, we live with connectedness. When we forgive, we feel stress-free. When we create, we live with inspiration. When we follow our inner direction, we feel alive. Is that even a choice?

The American soil is full of corpses of my ancestors– through 400 years and at least three wars. Why is my freedom, my citizenship, in question now?