#martyr

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ↗

— Lord Byron

#folly #loves #martyrdom

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. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#either #fanatic #get #himself #idea

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

#book #each #eras #fear #history

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#enthusiasm #martyrdom #price

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. ↗

— Rollo May

#courage #easier #freedom #greater #inner

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#heat #horrible #imaginable #instrument #martyrdom

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. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#children #clothes #dead #despair #desperate

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. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#come #culture #depends #each #earth

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#ability #become #man #martyrdom #only

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#century #could #god #hearts #him