Law Quote by Thomas Paine

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

— Charles Krauthammer

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 a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

— Thomas Browne

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

— Edmund Burke

At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the founder of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

“For us, persecution is like the sun coming up in the east. It happens all the time. It's the way things are. There is…

— Nik Ripkin

On many occasions I have been asked if I think persecution will come to the Western church. My answer might surprise you. I believe…

— Brother Yun

“Overt persecution is a daily threat to millions of Christians around the world. Visit Persecution.org to read about current examples of such cases and…

— Mark Driscoll

The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.

— Dion Fortune