I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country.… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
“On a social level, secularism is safe. As literally the world's most fundamental conformist, the secularist wants to call himself a revolutionary… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
This is what democracy is all about. People have every right to protest whoever's in the White House, without fear of persecution.… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
“Faith can be unholy, science can be inhuman, none depends on the tool, all depends on the person.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The persecution of Christians isn't isolated. Instead, it's rampant and expanding around the world. — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
“I am afraid, my friends, that the ugly chapters of genocides and the deep-rooted history of persecution in the Middle East will… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image