Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Lord Byron
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Robert Rainy
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
David Hilbert
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
Voltaire
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
Manfred von Richthofen
Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mahatma Gandhi
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark Twain
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Indira Gandhi
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
Bela Lugosi
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus
Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.
Ahmed Yassin
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
Chuck Palahniuk
We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory.
Ahmed Yassin
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.
Muqtada al Sadr
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
John Foxe
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