Jewish Martyrs
Martyrdom in Judaism is one of the main examples of Kiddush Hashem, meaning "sanctification of the name " through public dedication to Jewish practice.
Read more about Jewish Martyrs: Book of Maccabees, Pharisaic Tradition, Crusades, Spanish Inquisition
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“It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class.... I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says “there is no wisdom without leisure.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)