Martyrs II

Filed Under Gnostic Quotes | May 1, 2006

"The people who have really made history are the martyrs." - Aleister Crowley

"No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exacerbates it." - E. M. Cioran

"Those who are convinced that they have a monopoly on the Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics." - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Address to the Indian Council of World Affairs, pub. 1962

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