Persecution Quotes

If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

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

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

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.

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

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.

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

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.

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

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

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Persecution matures young rebels.

More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.

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

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence;
they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.