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Letter "P" » persecution
«Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.»
Author: Frank Moore Colby
| About:
Persecution,
Tolerance
| Keywords:
apathy, brotherly, brotherly love, persecution
«Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it»
Author: Howard Mumford Jones
| About:
Persecution
| Keywords:
criticism, First Law, persecution, persecutions, suppress
«Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.»
«Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Persecution
| Keywords:
by law, established, established religion, feature, marked, original, persecution, persecutions, religions, strongly
«Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Religion,
Trying
| Keywords:
attempt, For every, grounds, intolerance, legislation, persecution, persecutions, religious intolerance, religious persecution
«Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.»
«Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.»
«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.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, insight, persecution, profoundest
«Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
christen, christened, christening, opposition, persecution
«I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.»
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