Wyndham Lewis Quotes

Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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

To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjecture.

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.

The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

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

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

The plan is one worthy... But I cannot accept it, for I would not have a single drop of Brazilian blood spilled for my sake.

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.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

The more people who die for our cause, the stronger we shall become.

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.

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

If blood is to be shed, let it be our blood ... For man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hand of his brother, never by killing him.

Ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

God save Ireland, said the heroes God save Ireland said they all. Whether on the scaffold high, Or the battle field we die O’ what matter when for Ireland dear we fall.

Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die!

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.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.