Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

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

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

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

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

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

Parenthood seems really rewarding... like martyrdom, but without the glamour.

Martyrdom of followers is a strategy of political leaders to grab money and power.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

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

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.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.

I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.

The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.

Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.

My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.

The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God.

The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.

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