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Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

E. W. Howe

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E. W. Howe
American - Novelist
May 3, 1853 - October 3, 1937

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Thomas Reed

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

Helen Mirren

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.

Bo Burnham

I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that continued [throughout his life].

David LaChapelle

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.

Barbara Steele

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Naguib Mahfouz

Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.

Yasser Arafat

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

Ezra Pound

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

Murray Kempton

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Indira Gandhi

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

Thom Yorke

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

Larry Wilmore

I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.

Hailey Gates

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

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

Martha Ostenso

One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches.

Marie Rutkoski

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