| Religion is pictured as old-fashioned, atavistic and dogmatic, defending superstition by burning scientific martyrs at the stake. |
| Extreme cases come from martyrs who choose death rather than violate principles which are sacred to them. |
| The cult of the saints began with the earliest martyrs, who had certainly proved their wholeheartedness. |
| With brazen effrontery, however, they painted themselves as martyrs for freedom. |
| Norman Fowler, chairman of the Conservative Party, claimed that withdrawing the whip was a bad move because it made the rebels into martyrs. |
| I believe similar blood flows in the veins of men and women such as flowed in the veins of the martyrs in days gone by. |
