#martyrdom

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Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.


Ahmed Yassin


#allies #america #battle #countries #domination

We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory.


Ahmed Yassin


#end #martyrdom #road #victory #will

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.


Mahatma Gandhi


#satyagraha #torture

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.


Ibn Warraq


#criticism-of-the-koran #death #destructive-cult #houris #islam

But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state and the empire were inseparably connected at every turn, brought the Christians into inevitable conflict with the government and with public opinion. To the man in the street, the Christian was an anti-social atheist who would take no part in the public feasts and the games, which played such a large part in city life. To the authorities he was a passive rebel, who would neither take his share of municipal offices nor pay loyal homage to the Emperor. Hence the rise of persecution, and the driving of the Christians into an underground existence, as a proscribed sect. The Church grew under the shadow of the executioner's rods and axes, and every Christian lived in the peril of physical torture and death. The thought of martyrdom coloured the whole outlook of early Christianity. But it was not only a fear, it was also an ideal and a hope. For the martyr was the complete Christian, he was the champion and hero of the new society and its conflict with the old, and even the Christians who failed in the moment of the trial - the lapsi - looked on the martyrs as their saviours and protectors


Christopher Henry Dawson


#martyrdom #roman-empire #death

The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence of divine reality,and he would kill him.


André Frossard


#martyrdom #spirituality #dreams

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.


Chuck Palahniuk


#suicide #different

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.


Albert Camus


#pacifism #principles #war #die

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.


Bela Lugosi


#enthusiasm #martyrdom #price

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.


Chuck Palahniuk


#coverage #difference #martyrdom #only #press