Martyrdom Quotes

You're mad, you missionaries,' ejaculated Tai Haruru angrily. 'What good do you think you do, crawling out to the extremities of all the different world's ends and dying there like lizards spiked on sticks?'Brother Balaam jabbed his thumb over his shoulder at the church behind him. 'Ye'll get no civilization worth havin' in a new country unless ye lay down a few martyrs' bones for a foundation,' he said. 'They generate. Slow but sure.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.

~ Ernst Jünger

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.

~ Evelyn Waugh

The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander

~ R.l. Syme

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence of divine reality,and he would kill him.

~ André Frossard

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

~ Voltaire