Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

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.

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.

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

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

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

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.