Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.

A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.