While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.