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  Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Dream, Mistake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.206, Harvard University Press

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

  Edmund Burke

  Religious, Atheism, Zealous

  Speech, 18 February 1788, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 1, p. 104

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• I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Bible, Christian, Deep Thought

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• 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

  Country, Common Sense, Religion

  'Thoughts on Religion' (1765)

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• 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

  War, Men, Suffering

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• 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

  Fire, Separation Of Church And State, Absurd

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.18, Arcturus Publishing

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• 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

  Love, Tolerance, Apathy

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Sweet, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.258, ShandonPress

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• There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Religion, Atheism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.96

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• 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

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.172, Hackett Publishing

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• Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Essence, Religion, Transcendentalism

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• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hippie, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Popularity, Prophet

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• Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

  William Butler Yeats

  Religious, Atheism, Way

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• 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

  Running, Nature, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.37, 谷月社

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• Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

  Hugh Latimer

  Lying, Sides, Probability

  "The sermons of Right Reverend Father in God".

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• That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Agreement, Soul, Prejudice

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.

  Pope Francis

  Freedom, War, Heart

  "Pope's Christmas message: Iraq and Syria have suffered too long" by Susanna Capelouto, www.cnn.com. December 25, 2014.

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• 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

  Names, Matter, Today

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• One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

  John Fowles

  Love, Time, Couple

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.

  Hans Frank

  Holocaust, Criminals, Asking

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• Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

  Friedrich Schiller

  People, Great People, Subjects

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• Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Real, Men

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• The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

  Voltaire

  Running, Truth, Risk

  Voltaire (2007). “The Complete Romances of Voltaire”, p.460, Wildside Press LLC

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• Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Catholic, Pastor, Shows

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