#marty

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#enthusiasm #martyrdom #price

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. ↗

— Rollo May

#courage #easier #freedom #greater #inner

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here. ↗

— Bode Miller

#does #go #here #i #just

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

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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

#lazy #make #martyr #more #narrow

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#coverage #difference #martyrdom #only #press

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

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Why should women not be a martyr for her cause? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#her #martyr #should #why #women

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. ↗

— Albert Camus

#being forgotten #between #choose #forgotten #friend

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

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