#martyr

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ↗

— Lord Byron

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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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. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Benjamin Cardozo

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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

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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