#marty

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#die #fight #fighting #go #god

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#any #chooses #control #every #exaggeration

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself. ↗

— Steve Martin

#andy #bedroom #day #friend #had

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

#been #being #burned #counted #god

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

— Muqtada al Sadr

#fear #i #i wish #martyr #wish

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ↗

— Tertullian

#church #martyrs #seed

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. ↗

— Schuyler Colfax

#idea #lives #martyrs #patriotism #their

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must mean, public non-profit initiative, even if only in redistributing private accumulation. Public decisions aimed at collective social improvement from which all human lives should gain. That is the basis of progressive policy—not maximising economic growth and personal incomes. Nowhere will this be more important than in tackling the greatest problem facing us this century, the environmental crisis. Whatever ideological logo we choose for it, it will mean a major shift away from the free market and towards public action, a bigger shift than the British government has yet envisaged. And, given the acuteness of the economic crisis, probably a fairly rapid shift. Time is not on our side. ↗

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

#britain #climate-change #economics #environmentalism #free-market

So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. [...] It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#brom #christopher-paolini #eragon #inspirational #martyr