Atheism Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Anonymous

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

My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of…

— Henry Adams

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

— Howard Mumford Jones

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

— Tom Stoppard

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

— Wole Soyinka

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

— John Stott

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

— Edmund Burke

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

— Frank Moore Colby

“The study of history can be sobering and shocking, and morally troubling. One does not have to believe in original sin to do it…

— Anonymous