Michael J. Elliott Quotes

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Martyrdom does not end something. It is only the beginning.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

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

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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

Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.

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

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

We prefer death, martyrdom, and the graveyards of martyrs than to enjoy the guarantees and protection of America

Those prepared to die for the truth, as a rule make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them.

The martyr cannot be dishonored, every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame, every prison a more illustrious abode.

To lead comes from a Latin root which literally means to go out and die.

I wish to be a martyr ... God willing, I will have this through you.

For months people have been begging me to come here for this Kamikaze operation. We will die well. The fact that we are taking a role in a great moment is history is a great honor.

The youth movement here must aspire to a martyrdom death…. The young must be first at the front line - don’t hide at the back. You must be at the front, die as martyrs and all your sins will be forgiven. This is how to achieve forgiveness.

I am proud to have lied. Lying under torture is not easy. In the face of torture, a person with dignity lies. Enduring torture is very difficult ... The pain is unbearable; you can not imagine how. I am proud to have lied, because I saved my comrades from the same torture and from death.