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
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
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions. — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability… — Larissa Lai Copy Share Image
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls… — Joseph Smith, Jr 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
“The chopping block was not confined to one era, nor one form or country. There were many types of martyrdoms, spiritual as… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“I must warn you,” he says. Whatever persecutions the Christians have experienced, and whether it has been Jews or pagans or heretics… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions,… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Look on the effect of your religions, those movements that have swept up millions with their fantastical claims. Look at what they… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
