America Quote by Robert Hughes

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters…

— Robert Hughes

We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

— Robert Hughes

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

— Frank Moore Colby

...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from…

— Baron de Montesquieu

We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides…

— Ban Ki-moon

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

— John William Fletcher

“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns…

— ben franklin

“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion. The twin…

— David Brewster

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

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

— Will Durant

The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the…

— Fulton J. Sheen