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Letter "P" » persecutes
«Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected»
Author: Jimmy Cannon
| About:
Christmas
| Keywords:
fray, frayed, fraying, frays, holiday, persecutes, rejected, The Lonely
«This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.»
Author: Elie Wiesel
(Writer)
| Keywords:
expressed, first century, humanize, humanized, humanizing, identity, members, persecuted, persecutes, solidarity, The Lonely, twenty-first
«O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: (Psalms 7:1)»
Author: Bible
| About:
God,
Religion,
Trust
| Keywords:
deliver, Deliver Me, persecute, persecutes, persecuting, Psalms
«The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
appearance, deride, derided, derides, dislike, dread, familiar, first appearance, hence, innovator, innovators, madmen, notions, persecuted, persecutes
«The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Aurora, beast, boys, descending, engines, feather, houses, inflicting, insane, mob, outrage, outraged, outrages, persecutes, prank, pranks, put into action, put out, resembles, ruddier, ruddy, streaming, tar-and-feather, tar, The Beast, the mob, voluntarily, whip
«Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
am, contradicted, contradicting, dreaming, fall, fall into, into, I am, let, mistake, persecuted, persecutes, persecuting, vulgar
«It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Injustice
| Keywords:
crime, cruelties, cruelty, homosexuality, injustice, injustices, persecute, persecutes, persecuting
«Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all, and others to persecute those who reason»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
and others, at all, destine, destined, persecute, persecutes, persecuting, reason, wrongly
«Everything persecutes me in this world, even things that do not exist»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
exist, in this, In this World, persecutes, persecuting
«It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
brother, his brother, monster, persecutes, persecuting
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