Martyred Quotes - Page 2

• While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Numbers, Humanity, Atheism

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

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• Play the man, Mastre Ridley; we shall this day light such a cndle, by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

  Hugh Latimer

  Life, Success, Men

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• I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

  John Mason Brown

  Way, Martyrdom, Eternal

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• I'm not surprised people are being slaughtered, people are being martyred. Our hope isn't in this world as believers, it's in the eternity. To be absent of body is to be present with the Lord, so they are dying for something that is real and will last forever.

  Russell Okung

  Real, People, Forever

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• No one who has been martyred by the Jews should remain unknown.
  And no one who has been martyred by the Jews will remain unavenged.

  Eustace Mullins

  Should, Jew, Has Beens

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• Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Stars, Kings, Drama

  "THE AVENGERS Star Tom Hiddleston Writes Eloquent Editorial in Defense of Superhero Movies" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. April 20, 2012.

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• We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited by imperialists not only by people with white skin, because we do not confuse exploitation or exploiters with the colour of men's skins; we do not want any exploitation in our countries, not even by black people.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Running, Prejudice, Fields

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• I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

  John Walker Lindh

  Single Life, Honest, Exaggeration

  Interview with Robert Young Pelton, www.cnn.com. July 4, 2002.

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• As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Heart, Son

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• Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But never will be sung to us again, Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Sweet, Pain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.994, Delphi Classics

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• Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Clothes, Judging, Heaven

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• If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.

  Sylvia Plath

  War, Soldier, Would Be

  Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath (1975). “Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.

  Shirley Jackson

  Philosophy, Hands, Exotic

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• Think of the majesty of that moment in this dying world's history, when Jesus Christ declared that to the Christian death was only a sleep. Outside of that small dwelling in Capernaum, a great race of men rushed and toiled as they harassed continents and seas; mighty events marshaled themselves into annals and pageants. What was inside? In one inconspicuous chamber of a now forgotten house, man's Redeemer, unobserved, martyred man's final enemy. There Immanuel subdued death forever.

  Charles Seymour Robinson

  Christian, Jesus, Sleep

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 64, 1895.

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• I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Men

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.986, Delphi Classics

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• I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Country, Husband, Struggle

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• Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather, it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Divorce, Past, Feelings

  "Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism". Book by Joan Z. Borysenko, 1993.

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• If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie.

  Mark Hart

  Jesus, Lying, Guy

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• Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Country, Liberty

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• We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools...now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One....The more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.

  Justin Martyr

  Kindness, War, Numbers

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• I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

  Diane Lane

  Movie, Mother, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.

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• The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Art, Dumb, Heroism

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die for Him as well. I am filled to overflowing with joy; I am not only satisfied to be in prison ... but am ready to give my life for the sake of Jesus Christ.

  Mehdi Dibaj

  Christian, Jesus, Giving

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• The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.

  Lydia Millet

  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.206, Soft Skull Press

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