It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.