Agreement Quote by Eric Hoffer

“Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.”

— Harper Lee

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

“A defensive insensitivity that refuses to acknowledge the sufferings of those with whom we disagree is far too often where this obsession with persecution…

— Candida R. Moss

My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most…

— Roger Williams

“Because the persecuting majority is vile, says the liberal, therefore the persecuted minority must be stainlessly pure. Can't you see what nonsense that is?…

— Christopher Isherwood

“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to…

— Steven Pinker

“Let not the general representation unto thyself of the wretchedness of this our mortal life, trouble thee.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much…

— John Stuart Mill

“At heart men are antagonistic to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It is not antagonism to creeds or points of view, but antagonism encountered…

— Oswald Chambers

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

— John Hagee

We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova