#Persecution Quotes

“Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.”

“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”

“Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.”

“The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.”

“It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.”

“When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.”

“To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.”

“Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.”

“All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.”

“I didn't even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin' attorney came from Washington, and said, judge, we cannot let this man go to Japan and fight, because they are anti-American.Now, if I want to leave the country, I know how to leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I really want to leave. That's not the intention. The intention is to stop me from makin' a livin'. To punish me.”

“But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned”

“As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.”

“Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.”

“If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.”

“The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.”

“... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”

“In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.”

“Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.”

“The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.”

“Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.”

“Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.”

“Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")”

“Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.”