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Martyr Quotes
A martyr's rule often begins where a tyrant's ends.
These quotes trace what makes a martyr different from a tyrant or a ruler — the idea that dying for a cause can outlast any throne. Several reach back into church history, a theme also present in Anniversary quotes about commemorating the dead.
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In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
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His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.
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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.
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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