Quotes About Martyr

Better a trickster than a martyr be. What's the difference between a martyr and a trickster, you ask? Here's a quick primer. Martyr energy is dark, solemn, macho, hierarchical, fundamentalist, austere, unforgiving, and profoundly rigid. Trickster energy is light, sly, transgender, transgressive, animist, seditious, primal, and endlessly shape-shifting.

in order to let go of the addiction to creative suffering, you must reject the way of the martyr

La historia de la cristiandad habla de los mártires que iban al suplicio con alegría; hoy, en vuestra sociedad, no hay necesidad, para ser cristiano, ni del holocausto, ni del martirio, ni del sacrificio de la vida, sino única y sencillamente del sacrificio de vuestro egoísmo, de vuestro orgullo y de vuestra vanidad. Triunfaréis si la caridad os inspira y si la fe os sostiene. (Espíritu protector, Cracovia, 1861).

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Only a human would die for an idea.

Oh they will. He was a Republican, after all." "Abraham Lincoln was no Republican." "Hello?" "The Republicans in Congress hated him like poison. The goddammed Copperheads did everything they could to sabotage him. They cheered when he was killed, because then they could claim him as a martyr and rip off the South in his name.

On 11 January 2013, Dataism got its first martyr when Aaron Swartz, a twenty-six-year-old American hacker, committed suicide in his apartment.

You couldn't martyr yourself to Area X, you could only disappear trying, and not even be sure of that.

The Martyr Poets The Martyr Poets — did not tell — But wrought their Pang in syllable — That when their mortal name be numb — Their mortal fate — encourage Some — The Martyr Painters — never spoke — Bequeathing — rather — to their Work That when their conscious fingers cease — Some seek in Art — the Art of Peace —

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Francis George: I expect to die in my bed, my successor will die in prison, and his successor will die a martyr in the public square.

Ming is the only person besides Brenda who sees Katherine for what she is—a vengeful martyr in a Kabuki mask of dedication. Ming is also the only person besides Brenda who knows how infrequently Dagou actually talks to Katherine—knows

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

The martyr's characteristics are being, giving, sharing; the hero's, having, exploiting, forcing. (It should be added that the formation of the pagan hero is connected with the patriarchal victory over mother-centered society. Men's dominance of women is the first act of conquest and the first exploitative use of force; in all patriarchal societies after the men's victory, these principles have become the basis of men's character.)

I am selfless only to an extent, I can't be a martyr, I have a daughter to raise.

No militia or political leader is so powerful - his name never so influential - as when he is dead, enshrined on wall posters and gateposts amid naively painted clusters of tulips and roses, the final artistic accolade of every armed martyr in Lebanon.

Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.

Mark Finley, San Fransisco. We--as homosexuals--have been systematically denied our own history. Our own past. Perhaps that's why we're so eager to embrace a martyr, even when she's made of glass?

I blew myself up, Im on some martyr shit. Carry the weight for my city like a cargo ship.

And if you must sacrifice yourself, do that by marrying me. I'm not an easy man. You'll earn your martyr's crown before you're done. Don't condemn both of us to an eternity of unhappiness just because you're too stiff-necked to face society's censure.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint.... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Its face was like the face she had seen in some medieval paintings where the martyr's limbs are being sawed off and his expression says he is being deprived of nothing essential.

I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest fear was our children, because there was a tremendous amount of threat and intimidation, and my wife was terrified that the children might be grabbed or assaulted in some way. That was the real fear.