The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict. — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond… — Charles James Fox 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
“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
“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
“Persecution and revenge, like courtship and toadyism, will not prosper without a considerable expenditure of time and ingenuity,” — George Eliot 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
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
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
Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There was a lynching case as late as 2011, so it's not as far away as we think. I think persecution by… — Harry Lennix 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
The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Although here - Los Angeles 2014 - we can have a lighthearted movie about romance and living your life without persecution, that… — Michael Adam Hamilton 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
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
When my office created the F.A.C.T.S. Taskforce, it was to help empower teachers, students, and parents to share their concerns without the… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
That diabolical Hell conceivedprinciple of persecution rages among some [people] and to their eternal Infamy the clergycan furnish their Quota of Imps… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Concerning persecution against Christians in America, for those who say it can't happen here - it is already happening here in America.… — Paul McGuire Copy Share Image
Christianity is under attack globally, and particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, where Christian populations are ceasing to exist at… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
The United States was built on the idea that we could create a free country that would serve as a haven for… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups,… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Ever since you're little you hear this: 'The pilgrims left England to escape religious persecution and sneak religious freedom into the new… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
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