Margaret Mitchell Quotes

There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions.

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

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 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.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

I am willing to give my life as a martyr in order to get a fair trial …

There was great persecution in many places, both by imprisoning, and by breaking up of meetings. At a meeting about seven miles from London, the rude people usually came out of several parishes round about, to abuse Friends, and often beat and bruised them exceedingly. One day they abused about eighty Friends that went to that meeting out of London, tearing their coats and cloaks from off their backs, and throwing them into ditches and ponds; and when they had besmeared them with dirt, they said they looked like witches.

The orders said to decoy the emigrants from their position, and kill all of them that could talk. This order was in writing....

Ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

Was it not enough to crucify Christ, Must you crucify all redeemers?

Human beings can do some God-awful things to other human beings

I want to be a martyr.

A great number of poor Protestants, especially of women and children, they pricked and stabbed with their skeans, pitchforks and swords, and would slash, mangle and cut them in their heads, breasts, faces, arms and other parts of their bodies, but not kill them outright, but leave them wallowing in their blood to languish, starve and pine to death

Every kind of atrocity was inflicted upon their captives. They hung up the noblest and best-looking women naked, cutting off their breasts and stitching them to their mouths, so that the women appeared to be eating them and after this they impaled them on sharp stakes, run up the body.

Take your time and strike a man so that he feels he is dying.

I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.

Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.

A pattern has developed under the Maduro regime. When pressure builds, the first recourse is to repress and persecute. I know this because buckshot pellets fired by members of the armed forces - at peaceful protesters in 2017 - remain lodged in my own body. A minor price to pay compared to the sacrifices made by some of my compatriots.