Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man. — Samuel Roth Copy Share Image
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“It’s an evil fate to fall into the hands of a persecutor who was once persecuted.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong. — Richard Whately 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
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself.… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In 1986, Pakistan got the blasphemy law. So, while we had just two cases of blasphemy before that year, now we have… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“As long as we continue to search for enemies anywhere but inside ourselves, there will always be a Middle East problem. Religion… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
“We must face the fact that society is founded on intolerance. [. . .] We may prate of toleration as we will;… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Before we can hope to understand the Fathers, or rightly to estimate the force of the testimony they bear to Universalism, we… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“The most glorious triumphs of the Church have been won in times of persecution. The early church was persecuted for about three… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that God has given us this trial to not purpose. I know that the day will come when… — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The greatest talent you can possess is forgiveness of those who persecute and hate you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution” — Jeremy Aldana Copy Share Image
![“We must face the fact that society is founded on intolerance. [. . .] We may prate of toleration as we will; but society must always draw a line somewhere between allowable conduct and insanity or crime, in spite of the risk of mistaking sages for lunatics and saviours for blasphemers. We must…” quote by George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/george-bernard-shaw-68_intolerance_we-must-face-the-fact-that-society-is-fo_2004410.jpg)
