I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully.
Guillermo del Toro
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
Florence Nightingale
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Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
Ernestine Rose
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Emil Cioran
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
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The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.
Alice Morse Earle
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
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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
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
Muqtada al Sadr
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
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It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.
Ian Harding
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