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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Martyrdom
E. M. Cioran

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
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John Mason Brown

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.
Martyrdom
Gabriel Peri

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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Horace Mann

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.
Martyrdom
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Martyrdom
Mark Twain

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Martyrdom
Indira Gandhi

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
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Arthur Schnitzler

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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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George Eliot

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Martyrdom
Aleister Crowley

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
Martyrdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
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Nathaniel Howe

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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun