Steven Biko Quotes

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

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.

Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

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

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.

Revolutionary death is the reality and victory the dream.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the 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.

In some crazy sort of way, if I died helping a teammate or a friend or someone that I love, I think I could live with it. My family probably couldn't, but I think I could.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

Sacrifice life to truth.

He died fighting for what he believed in.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life

"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

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.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

What's so noble about being dead?

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.”

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?