Guise Quote by Edmund Burke Download Open image “Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.” — Edmund Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Guise May Mistaken Persecution Piety Religion Religious Religious persecution
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 to endure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Christianity had plainly said: 'It is not necessary to believe in order to be saved; it is only necessary to do, and he who really loves his fellow-men, who is kind, honest, just and charitable, is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
“Overt persecution is a daily threat to millions of Christians around the world. Visit Persecution.org to read about current examples of such cases and… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
Persecution is one way to drive believers away and create a carnal comfort zone. — John Hagee Copy Share Image
All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding. And to prevent the least hope of amendment, a king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers, who find their account in keeping him from the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used… — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful… — George Amos Dorsey Copy Share Image
I started the film [Hostel Part II]with the girls in an art class and there's a nude male model. People think that women are… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age,… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone else. And that can only be therapeutic up to a point until you truly deal with it and can express it to someone directly. Acting was a helpful outlet for me as a child. In some ways, I… — Lindsay Wagner Copy Share
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share