It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
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.
I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
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.