Century Quote by John Stuart Mill

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into…

— John Stuart Mill

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

— Chapman Cohen

Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.

— Hugh Latimer

“The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice or many times,…

— John Stuart Mill

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none…

— Bertrand Russell

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

— Voltaire

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

— Hugh Latimer

Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always…

— John Stuart Mill

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

— John Milton

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all,…

— Horace Bushnell

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny…

— Chrystine Oksana