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Tag Name "Martyrs" (99)

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Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
Chester Himes
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Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
E. Haldeman-Julius
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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
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
Albert Camus
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martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.
Susan Moody
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Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
Chester Himes
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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
Elbert Hubbard
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Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.
Richard Wurmbrand
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These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
Schuyler Colfax
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You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.
Stephenie Meyer
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Tertullian
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Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
Thomas Browne
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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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
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I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.
Viktor E. Frankl
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I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief
Walter Lippmann
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The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always observed, the doctors preached, and Martyrs and confessors witnessed. This is the Church I believe to be true.
Margaret Clitherow
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For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.
William Butler Yeats
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Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.
Mason Cooley
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We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno
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