Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 76 Persecution quotesPersecution QuotesPersecution Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Society's needs come before the individual's needs.~ Adolf Hitler It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power -- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.~ Eric Hoffer Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.~ Horace We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.~ Robert Hughes Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.~ Justice Robert H. Jackson The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is severe, firmness under it becomes more requisite and praiseworthy. It requires, indeed, self-command. But that will be fortified in proportion as the calls for its exercise are repeated.~ Thomas Jefferson But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.~ Jesus of Nazareth Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.~ Jesus of Nazareth Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.~ Howard Mumford Jones Persecution, whenever it occurs, establishes only the power and cunning of the persecutor, not the truth and worth of his belief.~ H. M. Kallen Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains and always was.~ D. H. Lawrence Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive... To be 'cured' against one's will and cured of states which we may not even regard as disease is to be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. For if crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime; and compulsorily cured. Even if the treatment is painful, even if it is life-long, even if it is fatal, that will be only a regrettable accident; the intention was purely therapeutic.~ C. S. Lewis This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.~ Abraham Lincoln Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay No man escapes When freedom fails, The best men rot in filthy jails; And they who cried: “Appease, Appease!” Are hanged by men they tried to please.~ Hiram Mann All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.~ H. L. Mencken The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.~ John Stuart Mill Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.~ Henry Miller There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.~ John Milton You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.~ John Viscount Morley Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print