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

— Benjamin Franklin

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

— Thomas Paine

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

— Frank Moore Colby

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

— Thomas Browne

The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

— Edward Gibbon

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

— Eric Hoffer

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of…

— Frederick Lenz

Persecution is one way to drive believers away and create a carnal comfort zone.

— John Hagee

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll