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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Emil Cioran

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

John Keats

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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

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Mark Twain

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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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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.

Emil Cioran

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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

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

George Eliot

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Søren Kierkegaard

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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

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Aleister Crowley

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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.

T. S. Eliot

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

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

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

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

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

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.

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.