#martyrdom

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet. ↗

— John Keats

#martyrdom #self-sacrifice #love

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ↗

— Lord Byron

#folly #loves #martyrdom

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#brave #death #die #enough #let us

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#enthusiasm #martyrdom #price

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

— Muqtada al Sadr

#martyrdom #occupation #resisting #stop #until

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#become #famous #man #martyrdom #only

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#martyrdom #anarchy

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

— Voltaire

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Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#censorship #freedom-of-speech #martyrdom #twitter #freedom