The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
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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.
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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YER OF THE VIGILE DEL FUOCO Lord who light the skyes and fill up the abysses, burn in our breast the flame of sacrifice. Strenghten the spirit of service that burn in us, make safe our eye, steady our foot, to make effective the rescue that in your name we bringto brothers in danger. When the siren shrieks in the streets of the town, listen the throb of our earths devoted to renounce. When in competition with eagles we climb to You, support us Your sored hand. When the fire irresistible flares up, burns the evil nestled in the houses of men, not the life and affections of Your sons. Lord, we are the bearer of Your Cross, and risk is our daily bread. A day without risk is not lived, because for we believers death is life, is light: in the dread of collapses, in the fury of waters, in the hell of fires. Our life is the fire, our faith is God. For Saint Barbara martyr. AMEN
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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
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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.
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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When the heart has acquired stillness, it will look upon the heights and depths of knowledge , and the intellect, once quieted, will be given to hear wonderful things from God.
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The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
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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.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one
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