Why Martyr Quotes?
Martyrs' Day is a day celebrated in honor of the people who died for a greater, noble cause. The celebration is done to remember the victims who took part in the fight for the freedom, progress, and glory of the nation.
The irresistible power of brave martyrs shook the history of the world, as these heroes go through torture and die the death that creates progress, freedom, and life.
What Parents Should Know
- Foxe's Book of Martyrs was the English Protestant equivalent of Martyrs Mirror, and this record of martyrdom was a crucial piece of literature for the English Reformation.
- Martyr complexes may manifest themselves in a variety of ways.
- Guru Arjan, the first Guru born into a Sikh household, became the first Sikh martyr in history, which was a watershed point in Sikhism.
What To Discuss With Kids
- Martyr is derived from the Greek word 'martys', which means 'witness'. It is also possible to interpret it as 'testimony'.
- Jesus of Nazareth was the first Christian martyr.
- While most people identify religious martyrdom with Christianity, the concept originated in Judaism.
Inspirational Martyr Quotes
Several members of the martyrdom and other notable people like Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Twain, Friedrich Nietzsche, Elbert Hubbard, Miguel Syjuco, and Napoleon Bonaparte have been either brave enough to die for the illustrious abode or have amazing quotes to inspire you:
"Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The people who have really made history are the martyrs." - Aleister Crowley
"The martyr endured torture to affirm his belief in truth but never asserted his belief in torture." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"A martyr is someone willing to die for what he believes in. A fanatic is someone willing for you to die for what he believes." - Marsha Hinds
"We all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs." - George Whitefield
"People who have really made history are the martyrs." - Aleister Crowley
"Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief." - Arthur Schnitzler
"The martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering and surrender." - Paulo Coelho
"While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus." - Michael Tait
"The problem with martyrs is that they're all dead. What do they have to do with us that are simple enough to still be alive? Should we just give up and want to die because death is better than dishonor?" - Rosamund Hodge
"The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most." - Edward Snowden
Martyr Quotes About Soldiers
Martyrdom is about people who were brave enough to die, and their death sustained life, and eliminated darkness, restoring freedom and progress in their time. Some of the martyr's quotes about soldiers include:
"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Death with character has dignity, without it, every breath is burden." - Abhijit Naskar, 'Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans'
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." - Oscar Wilde
"Our admiration is given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes." - Jean Cocteau
"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr." - Saint Augustine
"It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one." - Horace Mann
"When the battle is over, the warrior claps his hands sorrowfully for he has lost and the martyr has won." - Qassem Soleimani
"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off." - Emile M. Cioran
"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr." - Matshona Dhliwayo
"Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves." - Robert Green Ingersoll
"If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a hero, you become well-known." - Marilyn Manson
"A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything." - Bangambiki Habyarimana
"It's good to be a martyr for your art but it's just such a waste of time." - Ian Harding
Martyr Movie Quotes
The death of Martyrs in places like New Delhi has contributed to the growth of quotes on martyrdom and their death, and some of these inspiring quotes include:
"The martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape." - Stanley Hauerwas
"A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always." - William Mountford
"The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal." - Charles Caleb Colton
'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
"For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed." - Leo Rosten
"Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them." - Cormac McCarthy, 'Cities Of The Plain'
"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." - 'Apologeticus, L.13'
"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned." - Giordano Bruno
"The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness." - John Milton
"The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison is a more illustrious abode." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress." - Chester Himes
"It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs." - Miguel de Unamuno
"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists." - Franz Kafka
Martyr Day Quotes
Napoleon Bonaparte and many other notables have contributed to the martyrdom quotes on how people die the death that liberates others, and some of these quotes include:
"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins." - Soren Kierkegaard
"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr." - Prophet Muhammad
"Being a martyr is highly overrated." - Patricia Briggs
"These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea." - Schuyler Colfax
"Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts." - Alphonse de Lamartine
"Virtue has many preachers but few martyrs." - Claude Adrien Helvétius
"All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms." - Jean Cocteau
"A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape." - Stanley Hauerwas
"History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth." - Miguel Syjuco
"Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins." - Mark Twain
"The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most." -Unknown*
"What a tragedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled." - Shannon L. Alder
"No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it." - William Mountford
"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." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
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