Quotation Explorer - 'Martyr'

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. - Ambrose Bierce
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him. - John Barth
And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor -- as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats! - Hope Mirrlees
In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of a Spirit-led, Spirit-empowered people. All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who know in this life the power of the kingdom of God. - Richard Foster
But if you knew about this... conspiracy, why did you cooperate with it? Why did you allow Hae-Joo Im to get so close to you? Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?Tell me.We see an end beyond the endgame. ... - David Mitchell
I am not going to leave this land, I will die as a martyr at the end I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time. - Muammar Gaddafi
Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero. - Amit Kalantri
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. - Napoleon Bonaparte
A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them. - G.K. Chesterton
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. - Will Rogers
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