“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
“But manly sette the world on six and sevene; And if thow deye a martyr, go to hevene! Geoffrey Chaucer
“The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.Chuck Palahniuk
“We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day’s work at Auschwitz in the morning.George Steiner