Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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

This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?

If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

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

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

We are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah. The most honorable death is to be killed.

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.

He who defends his money is a martyr, and who defends his religion is a martyr, and he who defends his honor is a martyr.

I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is nothing more nobler a cause that I can think of.

You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.

Sacrifice life to truth.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.