Samuel Roth
Writer
"We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man."
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Persecution
32 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Friedrich Schiller
Playwright, Poet
"Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits."
William Blake
Poet, Painter
"There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"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."
Barack Obama
Politician
"My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists."
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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."
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"Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims."
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"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."
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