The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

- Aleister Crowley

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

- Emile M. Cioran

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

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

- James L. Farmer, Jr.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

- Miguel de Unamuno

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

- Saint Ambrose

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

- Tertullian