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