Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers. — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
One must not confuse the fight against corruption with the persecution of the rich or wealthy families. — Joao Lourenco Copy Share Image
I'm not a stranger to the persecution that Muslims have faced over the years. — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If we are not receiving some type of ridicule for our beliefs, we are probably doing something wrong.” — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Overt persecution is a daily threat to millions of Christians around the world. Visit Persecution.org to read about current examples of such… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“A defensive insensitivity that refuses to acknowledge the sufferings of those with whom we disagree is far too often where this obsession… — Candida R. Moss Copy Share Image
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own,… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
“Persecution produced its ordinary effect. The people courted martyrdom. They came from all parts to deride Zouloulou, whom nothing disconcerted - and… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
You know what, citizens? If you don't have a gun - I'm telling you as a Christian chaplain - sell your clothes,… — Gordon Klingenschmitt Copy Share Image
“Catholici sunt fideles unius veri Dei sectatores. Non habemus locum in mundo superborum peccatorum. In exilium acti, in oratione miraculi expectantes, cito… — Robert Chad Canter Copy Share Image
“After enduring humankind's unrelenting persecution, the wolf had become something nature had never intended, "the curse of a generation of ranchers and… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The apostles suffered incredible persecution and died horrible deaths in the Christian cause. The only possible explanation for their zeal was that… — Fritz Ridenour Copy Share Image
“The cunning villains used our innocence, naivety and honesty; they incited and steered our virtue, purity and fervent temperaments. When we realized… — Lin Zhao Copy Share Image
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“In short, when it comes to colonial America, religious persecution—in the sense of persecution both based in religion and aimed at religion—was… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject,… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“And God himself will have his servants, and his graces, tried and exercised by difficulties. He never intended us the reward for… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Cubans who arrive and can prove that they are refugees who are truly fleeing political persecution will continue to qualify as refugees.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.” — Billie-Jo Williams Copy Share Image
“Persecution stop immediately where there is no faith and there is no witness.” — Nik Ripkin Copy Share Image