Top 190 Martyrs Quotes & Sayings

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

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.

martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

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

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

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].

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

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

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

There are some situations where the police need to have adequate resources on hand in order to be able to go into a situation safely. Their job is to enforce the law, not be martyrs.

Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.

No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.

What I like about my character: Luke Cage is a person first and foremost. We do have other black superheroes, but he's important because he's touchable. Luke has moments when he has to try to forget his pain, but then, unlike the rest of us, he's also able to channel that frustration into fighting bad guys. Real martyrs aren't trying to be martyrs.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Keralites have become fed up with this kind of politics that creates martyrs.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!

We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation.

Russian people, like their Chinese comrades, are well aware of what is going on. And there are tens of millions of their martyrs who are reminding them what is to be expected from the West.

The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.

My noble respect also goes to the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners, martyrs of the People's Army and other patriotic martyrs who dedicated all their precious things to promoting the development of our Party and the prosperity of the country in loyal support of the great leaders.

I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

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

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

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.