Quotes with persecute

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• Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

  ― Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

  ― Antonia Fraser
  British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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• Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

  ― Alva Myrdal
  Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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• Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak and human dignity must be enhanced.

  ― Jimmy Carter
  American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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• The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

  ― Nathaniel Howe
  American priest (1764 - 1837)
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• Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• concentration
• universities
• monasteries
• preserved
• discredit
• absolute

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