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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religi

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Arthur Schnitzler

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In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, b

In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly thought that the Bosnian cause was worth fighting for and worth defending, but I could not take myself seriously enough to imagine that my own demise would have forwarded the cause. (I also discovered that a famous jaunty Churchillism had its limits: the old war-lover wrote in one of his more youthful reminiscences that there is nothing so exhilarating as being shot at without result. In my case, the experience of a whirring, whizzing horror just missing my ear was indeed briefly exciting, but on reflection made me want above all to get to the airport. Catching the plane out with a whole skin is the best part .) Or suppose I had been hit by that mortar that burst with an awful shriek so near to me, and turned into a Catherine wheel of body-parts and (even worse) body-ingredients? Once again, I was moved above all not by the thought that my death would 'count,' but that it would not count in the least.

Christopher Hitchens

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Aleister Crowley

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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

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