Persecution

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

- Oliver Goldsmith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

- Abraham Lincoln Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

- Thomas Paine Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

- Hosea Ballou Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

- John Stuart Mill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

- Francis Schaeffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

His fruit is but such as grows upon the stony ground, but stay till the sun of persecution arise and scorch him.

- George Gillespie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We are not resting our case on simply the knowledge of superiors of the acts of their subordinates, ... We are charging all five with personally ordering, planning, instigating, executing or aiding and abetting in the accounts of persecution, deportation and murder.

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

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

While we're glad that our colleague has been freed, the coercive circumstances of his release are alarming. Saudi officials must allow him to continue his work without further persecution.

- Ann Cooper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They ask you concerning the sacred month about fighting in it. Say Fighting in it is a grave matter, and hindering (men) from Allah's way and denying Him, and (hindering men from) the Sacred Mosque and turning its people out of it, are still graver with Allah, and persecution is graver than slaughter and they will not cease fighting with you until they turn you back from your religion, if they can and whoever of you turns back from his religion, then he dies while an unbeliever-- these it is whose works shall go for nothing in this world and the hereafter, and they are the inmates of the fire therein they shall abide.

- Qur'an Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in A thousand years.

- Alfred Tennyson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The emperor Domitian, who was naturally inclined to cruelty, first slew his brother, and then raised the second persecution against the Christians.

- John Foxe Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Erasing persecution of gays from the history of the Holocaust repeats the tragic silence of most Germans in the Nazi years.

- Harry Knox Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them such is the recompense of the unbelievers.

- Qur'an Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

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This is a serious case of malicious persecution of Cong. Beltran on account of his political beliefs and activities.

- Romeo Capulong Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There's signs that the persecution of Bah'is in Iran may be about to step up in a big way.

- David Andrews Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

- Paul Robeson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Does anyone know...does the Christian persecution complex have an expiration date Because...uh...you've all been in charge pretty much since...uh...what was that guys name...Constantine. He converted in, what was it, 312 A.D. I'm just saying, enjoy your success.

- Jon Stewart Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

- Strom Thurmond Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They're trying to develop a persecution complex.

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