Quotes about Martyr

Terrorists who blow themselves up believing that they will receive a martyr's reward in paradise (100 virgins to make love to for eternity) actually get that. Unfortunately for them, not one of the virgins is a day under 95 years old.

Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose. "Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country," he wrote in his suicide note. "... If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country."

"Without fear I go now to God," Ritscher wrote in the last sentence of his suicide note. "Your future is what you will choose today."