martyrs quotes

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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Franz Kafka

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

Albert Camus