quotes about Persecution
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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
-- Bill Condon -
I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing.
-- Christopher IsherwoodSource : "Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49". Interview with W.I. Scobie, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1974.
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Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
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Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.
-- George O. Wood -
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
-- Hosea Ballou -
Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.
-- Hugh Latimer -
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Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.
-- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi -
There's not a European country the Jews haven't been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it's not just persecution. THERE'S NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE.
-- Mark Collett -
To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.
-- Mark WeisbrotSource : "Ecuador or Another Country Should Grant Asylum to Snowden, CEPR Co-Director Says". cepr.net. June 23, 2013.
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More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.
-- Ramsay MacMullenSource : Ramsay MacMullen (1999). “Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries”, p.14, Yale University Press
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Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
-- Richard Whately -
Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.
-- Richard WhatelySource : Richard Whately (1856). “Essays [third Series] on the Errors of Romanism Having Their Origin in Human Nature”, p.144
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If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
-- Rita Levi-Montalcini -
I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
-- Sacha Baron CohenSource : "'I dressed as Borat and Ali G fans had no idea it was me': Sacha Baron Cohen on enjoying his anonymity" by Rob Bleaney, www.mirror.co.uk. May 18, 2012.
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We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.
-- Samuel Roth -
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
-- Austin O'Malley -
If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
-- Ignatius of Loyola -