Indirect Quote by Thomas Browne

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

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

— Charles Krauthammer

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

— Edmund Burke

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

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 is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

— Austin O'Malley

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

— Frank Herbert

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Persecution is one way to drive believers away and create a carnal comfort zone.

— John Hagee

“The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.”

— Sherman A. Jackson

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate…

— Swami Vivekananda

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

— Peter Ustinov