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• When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

  Hannah More

  Fancy, Bears, Provoking

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• O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Lying, Church, Kind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.287, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what truth might be, and therefore begin to swallow whatever they're fed. I think that's something that the Chinese have learned very well. They've even managed to persuade quite large segments of the population that the martyrs of Tiananmen were actually an anti-national element. People don't view them as heroes, they see them as troublemakers. There you have a combination of censorship of truth creating a new truth, which is the lie, but it's not seen as such.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lying, Hero, Thinking

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• The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She can thrive through persecution, but never through peace and plenty.

  L. E. Maxwell

  Faith, Blood, Church

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• There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Lonely, Sacrifice, Doubt

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• This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Women, World, May

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• I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

  Thom Yorke

  Musician, Sin, Wells

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• Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the place that we deserve in order that we might enjoy what we don't deserve. This is good news. Let us tell all our friends!

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Order, Example

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• For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

  Leo Rosten

  Martyrdom

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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• Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?

  Abram Joseph Ryan

  Hero, Sleep, Blood

  Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

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• The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist.

  Annie Besant

  Sacrifice, Law, Catholic

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Virtue, Preacher

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• When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Men, Blood

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Church, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Flames, Candidates

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.941, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don’t apply some of the
  medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.

  T. D. Jakes

  Sacrifice, Self, Medicine

  T. D. Jakes (2011). “Hope for Every Moment: 365 Inspirational Thoughts for Every Day of the Year”, p.4, Destiny Image Publishers

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

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Wish, Fear Of Death

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• Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.

  Annie Dillard

  Ideas, Joy, Secret

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.174, Canongate Books

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• Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

  Mason Cooley

  God, Power, Virtue

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• Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Stones, Reason

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 4

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• A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Toil, Fool

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

  David Mitchell

  Games, Doe, Nero

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• All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Book, Eras, Periods

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

  James A. Garfield

  Struggle, Long, Church

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.576, Best Books on

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• Many a woman shudders... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Art, Army, Intellectual

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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