Quotes with persecution

  • Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
  • Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

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  • Joseph Addison It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Charles Simmons Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Arthur Bryant Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ayn Rand Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Bill Condon Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • George Eliot Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Bertrand Russell Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
    Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • John Stuart Mill The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The whole history of Christianity proves that she has indeed little to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • John F. Kennedy Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Anatole France War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Ban Ki-moon 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 us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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