Persecution Quotes · Page 4

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

— Edwin Louis Cole

“They can make all the plans they want but it doesn't mean I have to cooperate with them”

— Edward Williams

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

— Robert Hughes

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

— Hugh Latimer

“Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

— John Foxe

Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.

— C. J. Mahaney

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial…

— Harry J. Anslinger

Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of…

— Pope John Paul II

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

— Daniel D. Palmer

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country.…

— Jonathan Swift

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant…

— Anonymous

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

“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it.…

— George Orwell

O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution…

— John Piper

The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people…

— Pat Robertson

The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were…

— Oskar Schindler

“It is estimated that every three minutes somewhere in the world a Christian faces serious violations ranging from severe discrimination to outright…

— Majed El Shafie

At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second…

— Steven Pinker

“Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a…

— Brother Andrew

I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first…

— Asif Ali Zardari

“The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also…

— Virchand Gandhi

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or…

— Anonymous

“The language of martyrdom and persecution is often the language of war. It forces a rupture between “us” and “them” and perpetuates…

— James Martin

“ Because the persecuting majority is vile, says the liberal, therefore the persecuted minority must be stainlessly pure...What's to prevent the bad…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Exoneration of Jesus Christ If Christ was in fact God, he knew all the future. Before Him like a panorama moved the…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“I want men who will believe in Me, even when I do not protect them; I will not open the prison doors…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of…

— John Adams

Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the…

— Noam Chomsky

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

— Howard Mumford Jones

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

— Roy Bennett

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

— Charles Spurgeon

I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.

— Ti-Grace Atkinson

“Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.”

— DaShanne Stokes

To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.

— Mark Weisbrot

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

— William Blake

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

— Anonymous