A Quote by Murray Kempton

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

Murray Kempton

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Murray Kempton
American - Journalist
December 16, 1917 - May 5, 1997

It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

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

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

E. W. Howe

Everybody is called to become a saint. Not everybody's gonna be canonized by the Church...The only thing about being canonized is you're already dead so you don't even get to go to the party.

Lino Rulli

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

I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.

Brother Lawrence

We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.

Gene Wolfe

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

Ambrose Bierce

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.

Laini Taylor

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

Avicenna

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

Voltaire

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

Yasser Arafat

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.

Charles Caleb Colton

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.