90 Quotes About Martyrdom

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

The mob is the most deadly of all critics in that it thinks critically only towards critical thinkers.

I never wanted to be a martyr—even for love. I don’t want to die for love. I want to live for it.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals--only people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.' 'Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

You want to kill me, and I do not care, for no matter how you kill me, it will not make a difference, because I never wanted to live in the first place. Kill me and tell them that I fought. I will be remembered a fighter, and you will go down a hero. Kill me and be left with the memory, that you killed someone who wanted to die. Only your saints will know your sins, but they do not care, for theirs outweigh your own.

The mind is a snake always trying to confuse man, disrupt him and petrify his heart by attacking does to whom he loves the most. A good man must keep it in place it's his duty.

The chopping block was not confined to one era, nor one form or country. There were many types of martyrdoms, spiritual as well as physical ones; visible and invisible, the block took on many forms and could be encountered anywhere, any time.

If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.