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Persecution Quotes
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions make it impossible to earn a living. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved. (Quote by - Archbishop Richard Whately)
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. (Quote by - Buddha)
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Quote by - Bible)
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced of the truth of it, as a mathematical demonstration, before I would venture to act upon it or make it a part of my religion. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -- that book I abhor -- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. (Quote by - Katherine Patterson)
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power -- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)