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

Bonaparte, Napoleon · Martyrdom · 1 fans >>
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"I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way."

Brown, John Mason · Martyrdom · 0 fans >>
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"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never."

Camus, Albert · Martyrdom · 0 fans >>
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"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."

Cioran, E. M. · Martyrdom · 2 fans >>
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"No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it."

Cioran, E. M. · Martyrdom · 1 fans >>
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"The people who have really made history are the martyrs."

Crowley, Aleister · Martyrdom · 0 fans >>
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

Eliot, George · Martyrdom · 0 fans >>
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"We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory."

Eliot, T. S. · Martyrdom · 0 fans >>
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"The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · Martyrdom · 1 fans >>
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"The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · Martyrdom · 1 fans >>
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