Persecution Quotes

278 Persecution quotes by 233 unique authors

Do not expect, my friend, that the whole world will rejoice if you become Christian. You will probably receive enmity and hatred and persecution from… — Martyn
Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of… — David Suzuki
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect… — Charles Caleb Colton
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. — Charles Caleb Colton
No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness.… — Tobsha Learner
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous… — Baron de Montesquieu
Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society. — Frances Wright
Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced of the truth… — Joseph Addison
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. — John Milton
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved. — Richard Whately
Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong. — Richard Whately
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of… — Roger Williams
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only… — John Rawls
Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of… — Sargent Shriver
Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the… — Saint Basil
The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew… — Thomas Aquinas
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor. — Bernard of Clairvaux
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put… — Hal Lindsey
Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor… — James Anthony Froude
Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was… — Blaise Pascal
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will… — Anatole France
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. — Thomas Frank
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. — Antonia Fraser

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