Fanaticism Quote by Voltaire

Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.

— Hugh Latimer

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

— Chapman Cohen

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of…

— John Stuart Mill

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

— Hugh Latimer

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

— John Milton

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into…

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Eric Hoffer

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should…

— Phyllis Bottome

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none…

— Bertrand Russell

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

— Anonymous

“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny…

— Chrystine Oksana

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