Calm Quote by Michael Chabon

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

— Eric Hoffer

“How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend…

— Larissa Lai

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

— Walter Bagehot

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

“• They travel in tight circles of likeminded people. • Their thinking is more likely based on what authorities have told them rather than…

— John W. Dean

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

— Albert Camus

At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.

— Marianne Williamson

“Certain beliefs place their adherents beyond the reach of every peaceful means of persuasion, while inspiring them to commit acts of extraordinary violence against…

— Sam Harris

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

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

— Frank Moore Colby