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• These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

  Schuyler Colfax

  Memorial Day, Ideas, Remembrance

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• No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Atheism

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.219, University of Chicago Press

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• What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Self, World, Knows

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• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

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

  Albert Camus

  Forgotten, Used, Understood

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Worship, Prophet

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• We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, May, Spirit

  George Whitefield (1771). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield ...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published ; with a Select Collection of Letters Written to His Most Intimate Friends, and Persons of Distinction, in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, from the Year 1734, to 1770 ; Including the Whole Period of His Ministry ; Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed”, p.178

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• It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Causes, Easier, Dies

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• The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

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• No true Christian can carry within his heart hatred for any of God's children . . . I am as aware as any other Christian that our Savior was Jewish, His mother was Jewish. The Apostles were Jewish. The first martyrs were Jewish...So no true Christian, in my judgment, can be an anti-Semite.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Mother, Children

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• Being a martyr is highly overrated.

  Patricia Briggs

  Overrated

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Bones”, p.155, Penguin

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• All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

  Jean Vanier

  Children, Hero, Secret

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• While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.

  Michael Tait

  Jesus, Selfish, Different

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• All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

  Jean Cocteau

  Spiritual, Journey, Spiritual Journey

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• It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

  Horace Mann

  Soul, Energy, Difficult

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.213

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• MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Moving, Lines

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2460, Delphi Classics

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• The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bystanders, Torment, Felt

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• Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Reflection, Breathe, Stifling

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• Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

  Will Rogers

  Crooks, Taxation, Taxes Funny

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tongue, Prison, Fame

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Wise, Fear, Men

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• Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

  Franz Kafka

  Literature, Body, Crosses

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Sweet, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.258, ShandonPress

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• The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Criminals

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