(97 quotes found)
“To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.”
Voltaire
“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“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
“To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well”
Chinese Proverbs
“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
“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
“Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.”
Edmund Burke
“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
“There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution”
John Milton
“I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution”
Francis Schaeffer
