Martyrdom Quotes

“Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.”

“Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.”

“The fools, the fools, the fools! — they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”

“We have to be ready to sacrifice our lives for this struggle because this is the only way to get to paradise.”

“I thank God for this honor that He bestowed upon us with the martyrdom of my three sons and some of my grandchildren.”

“What I have taught with my lips, I now seal with my blood.”

“We are going to win because they love life and we love death.”

“Jihad is our way and death for the sake of Allah is our most exalted wish.”

“For the name of Jesus and the protection of the Church, I am ready to embrace death.”

“You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.”

“It is not the death that makes the martyr, but the cause.”

“I am prepared to die in the truth of the Gospel, which I have preached.”

“The weakness of our enemy is that it is a society that loves life. We, on the other hand, are a society that loves martyrdom.”

“I care not though I were to live but one day and one night, provided my name were for ever remembered among my countrymen.”

“To the deed that I see and the death that I shall die I go with a laugh upon my lips.”

“For the story of a defeat is a story of glory.”

“The glory of the martyrs is the glory of the Church.”

“Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, hold the truth, defend the truth until death.”

“O holy simplicity!”

“I am ready to die and I will die as a martyr, and I am not scared of a death sentence.”