Quotes about Martyr

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.

Atheism - Belief - Enough - Feelings - Heavens - Honesty - Human - Martyr - People

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.

Fall - Man - Martyr - Morals - Speaking - Value - Wellness

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

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

Bravery - Death - Martyr

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Voltaire

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Cynicism - Humor - Martyr - Novel - Sarcasm

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Friedrich Schiller

Philosopher, Dramatist, Poet

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Aiming - Citizenry - Creativity - Egotism - Flourishing - Follower - Giving - Indifference - Judging - Martyr - Republic - Reward - Solitude - Universal - Views - Whole

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Ability - Fame - Man - Martyr

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E. O. Wilson

Biologist, Naturalist, Author

[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

Consciousness - Execution - Martyr - Mindset - Religion - Righteousness - State

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Guns - Martyr - Patriotism - Revolution

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

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

Friendship - Martyr - Mockery

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Robert Kennedy

Actor, Politician, Former U.S. Senator

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.

Accomplishment - Assassination - Cowardice - Creating - Heroism - Madness - Martyr - People - Violence - Voice - Wrong

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Ability - Man - Martyr - Rebelling - Terrorism

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Lord Byron

Poet, Politician, Revolutionary

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Martyr

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Augustine of Hippo

Theologian, Philosopher

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

Martyr - Punishment

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

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

Accept - Man - Martyr - Prophecy - Worship

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.

Doubt - Heavens - Man - Martyr

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Emile M. Cioran

Philosopher

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Martyr - Power - Suffering

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

Belief - Martyr - Wellness

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John Keats

Poet

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Death - Martyr

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

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

Martyr

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