Imam Hussein (as) said: O You! This bastard son of a bastard has made me free to choose between two things: between a sword and accepting the humiliation. And alas that we submit to humiliation.
Al-Ihtejaj, vol. 2, p. 300

Imam Hussein (as) said: People are slaves of the world, and religion is an enamel that is clogged with their tongues as long as the means of subsistence are available, but when the time of trial arrives, the pious become scarce
Bahar al-Anwar, vol. 78, p. 117