Persecution Quotes

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

— Frances Wright

“without fighting back. The persecution of the Jews”

— Miklós Nyiszli

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“Fanatics fear liberty more than they fear persecution.”

— Ernest Renan

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

— Paul Washer

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

— Thomas Browne

“For every blissful moment you must an anguish meet.”

— Billie-Jo Williams

Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

— Anonymous

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

— Charles Lindbergh

“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

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

“Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.”

— William Shakespeare

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

— George Eliot

“If we are not receiving some type of ridicule for our beliefs, we are probably doing something wrong.”

— Dillon Burroughs

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

— Anonymous

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Don’t ever give up in freedom what we would never have given up in persecution! That is our witness to the power…

— Nik Ripken

We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what…

— Otto Frank

“People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were…

— J. Matthew Nespoli

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

“I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the…

— John Piper

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men,…

— George Eliot

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our two nations have a lot in common, when you think about it. We were both founded by immigrants escaping religious persecution…

— George W. Bush

“...suggest four general maxims, which will prove an adequate preventive of persecution mania if their truth is sufficiently realized. The first is:…

— Bertrand Russell

People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not…

— Takashi Nagai

The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained,…

— Iain Pears

“Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with…

— Luther Burbank

Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our…

— John Piper

“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in…

— ben franklin

“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of…

— Philip Pullman

“...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary.…

— Christopher Isherwood

It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to…

— Thomas Aquinas

The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a…

— N. Scott Momaday

“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,…

— Thomas Paine

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

There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject,…

— Thomas Szasz