"We need only think
of the early Christian martyrs; of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Islamic
suicide bombers; or of the assassins of the Russian Revolution. After a Social Revolutionary named Kalyaev assassinated a Russian grand duke in 1905, the duke's wife visited him in prison and told him: "Repent ... and I will beg the sovereign to give you your life."
Kalyaev replied: "No! I do not
repent. I must die for my deed and I will . . .. My death will be more useful to my cause than [the grand duke's] death."
-Ted Kaczynski, Anti-Tech Revolution: why and how
