(94 quotes found)
“To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well”
Chinese Proverbs
“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 announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.”
Voltaire
“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
“I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution”
Francis Schaeffer
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution”
John Milton
“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”
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