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Martyrdom Quotes

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligent, Feelings, Martyrdom
Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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

John Mason Brown
Way, Martyrdom, Eternal

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

Voltaire
Truth, Affection, Martyrdom
Letter to Jean le Rond d'Alembert, February 08, 1776.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

John Dryden
Conformity, Conform, Martyrdom
John Dryden (1767). “THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND”, p.31

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

Evelyn Underhill
Differences, Execution, Martyrdom
Evelyn Underhill (2004). “Light of Christ: Addresses given at the House of Retreat Pleshey, in May, 1932”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Bela Lugosi
Acting, Enthusiasm, Martyrdom

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

Vaclav Havel
Doe, Martyrdom, Totalitarianism

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Barbara Mertz
Sacrifice, Results, Martyrdom

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

Robert Charles Wilson
Loyalty, Doe, Martyrdom
Robert Charles Wilson (2014). “The Chronoliths”, p.240, Macmillan

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

Muqtada al Sadr
Occupation, Liberation, Martyrdom

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Leo Rosten
Martyr, Martyrdom
Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

Parenthood seems really rewarding... like martyrdom, but without the glamour.

Dov Davidoff
Parenthood, Glamour, Martyrdom

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