It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
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.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
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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