The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.

"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs

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.

I am very fond of truth but not at all of martyrdom.

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

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.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time be ceaselessly drunk. On wine on poetry or on virtue as you wish.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine on poetry or on virtue as you wish.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

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

I wish to be a martyr and I don't fear death.

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.

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

It is the cause not the death that makes the martyr.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr but let no one lust for martyrdom.

You should read history and look at ostracism persecution martyrdom and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men you know.