“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
“Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.”
Albert Camus
“A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood”
Irish Sayings
“It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
Charles Baudelaire
“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr”
Muhammad
“It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him”
John Barth
“In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief”
Walter Lippmann
