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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr. A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

Friedrich Nietzsche

martyrs and martyrdom

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Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others—first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enor... - MORE Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others—first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.

Jean Baker Miller

femininity/the female experience | women | responsibilities

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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 m... - MORE 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.

E.M. Cioran

fanatics

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Whate'er she meant by it, bury it with me,
For since I am... - MORE Whate'er she meant by it, bury it with me,
For since I am
Love's martyr, it might breed idolatry,
If into others' hands these Reliques came;
As 'twas humility
To afford to it all that a Soul can do,
So, 'tis some bravery,
That since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

John Donne

love

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

martyrs and martyrdom

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And one may say boldly that no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be i... - MORE And one may say boldly that no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

truth

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Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or w... - MORE Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow—or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.

Zelda Fitzgerald

women

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A dead martyr is just another corpse. A dead martyr is just another corpse.

Leo V. Gordon

sacrifices | heroes | heroines | idealism

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Science gives us the grounds of premises from which religious truths are to be inferred; but it does not set about inferring them,... - MORE Science gives us the grounds of premises from which religious truths are to be inferred; but it does not set about inferring them, much less does it reach the inference;Mthat is not its province. It brings before us phenomena, and it leaves us, if we will, to call them works of design, wisdom, or benevolence; and further still, if we will, to proceed to confess an Intelligent Creator. We have to take its facts, and to give them a meaning, and to draw our own conclusions from them. First comes Knowledge, then a view, then reasoning, then belief. This is why Science has so little of a religious tendency; deductions have no power of persuasion. The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

John Henry Newman

religion | science

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The martyr sacrifices herself (himself in a few instances) entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she (or he) makes the self... - MORE The martyr sacrifices herself (himself in a few instances) entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she (or he) makes the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Florence Nightingale

martyrs and martyrdom

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