Martyr Quotes

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.

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

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

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

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

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it on my own, which I did for a while. I've hired a babysitter before, but as for a full-time caregiver... for a control freak like me, it ain't gonna happen!

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.