Crude Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

— Voltaire

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

— A. C. Dixon

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

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

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

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

— William Hazlitt

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

— Ashoka

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

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

— Anonymous

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

— Charles Krauthammer