Asma Jahangir Quotes

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

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.

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.

Our only way to repel the vicious attack on our land and restore our honor and glory is to sacrifice our souls, our money, our time, our lives and anything else for the sake of our noble cause

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

Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

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

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

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

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

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

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

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.

The terrorists gave up their lives to kill people. Americans gave up their lives to save people.

It is a sweet and glorious thing to die for one's country. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

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.

I long to die for such a true cause; I wish to expire on the bed of glory; I wish to perish at my post.

The cause is not worth dying for.