1.
If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
Ignatius of Loyola
2.
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
3.
Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.
Hugh Latimer
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
Daniel D. Palmer
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
Sacha Baron Cohen
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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
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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 Isherwood
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
Hosea Ballou
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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
John Stott
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
Bill Condon
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Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.
George O. Wood
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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
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What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
Tom Stoppard
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Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.
Charles Spurgeon
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Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.
Richard Whately
17.
Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
Friedrich Schiller
19.
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
Richard Whately
20.
More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians
than had died before in all the persecutions.
Ramsay MacMullen
22.
To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.
Mark Weisbrot
23.
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.
William Blake
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
Vance Havner
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Persecution matures young rebels.
Han Suyin
26.
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.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Emma Goldman
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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.
Jon Stewart
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Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
Austin O'Malley
32.
My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.
Barack Obama