#martyrdom

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#every #every man #him #knock #man

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first? ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#martyrdom #life

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. ↗

— Voltaire

#fond #i #i am #martyrdom #truth

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. ↗

— George Eliot

#best #happen #history #kind #know

The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#chivalry #ernst-jünger #martyrdom #patriotism #self-distancing

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

Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#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

My birth is imminent. Forgive me, brethren. Do not prevent me from coming to life. – As he faced the prospect of being devoured by wild beasts for his faith ↗

— St. Ignatius

#new-birth #faith

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. ↗

— Mark Twain

#martyrdom #multitude #sins