Persecute Me Quotes

#1. The four eaglets are my four sons who cease not to persecute me even unto death. The youngest of them, whom I now embrace with so much affection, will sometime in the end insult me more grievously and more dangerously than any of the others.

Henry II Of France

#2. Yes, indeed, I have often thought with a bitter joy that these riches, which would make the wealth of a dozen families, will be forever lost to those men who persecute me. This idea was one of vengeance to me, and I tasted it slowly in the night of my dungeon and the despair of my captivity.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

Sigmund Freud

#4. What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Max Beckmann

#5. Why must one religion be hounded by another? What gives them the right to punish and persecute someone of a different faith? Why?

Lilian Gafni

#6. Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of 'religion', whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness.

John Locke

#7. Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.

James Madison

#8. You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

Eric Liu

#9. Persecution, whether it is physical, social, or mental, is one of the worst types of pain, but those who persecute us are to be the objects of our prayers.

Billy Graham

#10. Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

Pope Francis

#11. When Satan begins to particularly attack to persecute you, it should be a sign of your strength

Sunday Adelaja

#12. But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Jesus Christ

#13. Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution.

Christina Engela

#14. It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.

William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

#15. Persecute them ... Let them be put to shame and perish ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow ... Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

Wiley Drake

#16. What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

Voltaire

#17. Then I read this: "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven" (Matthew 5:43-45). That's it! I was thunderstruck

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#18. Um, we don't hit women in America." He scowled, and spit out an apple seed. "No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them.

Donna Tartt

#19. I asked them why when they persecute men, for religion or colour it was seen by the world as oppression and when they persecute women, it was dismissed as tradition.

Emer Martin

#20. It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

Paul Wolfowitz

#21. Recognition of the political-economic forces that impose patterns of suffering is the foundation for an applied critique of policy and services that persecute oppositional, marginalized populations in the name of morality

Philippe Bourgois

#22. Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's consciences; they therefore persecute all of us who have the temerity to tell the truth.

Frederick The Great

#23. You don't persecute an entire people unless you fear the truth that they are carrying!

Celso Cukierkorn

#24. Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

Octavia Butler

#25. To take up your cross means to associate yourself with Christ and to share His rejection. It means you take a stand for Christ even though people make fun of you, persecute you - or even kill you!

Billy Graham

#26. ...Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you...

Olisa Ufondu

#27. There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.

African Spir

#28. I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

Michael Moore

#29. What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.

Frank Harris

#30. It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Gertrude Stein

#31. Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

Tammy Faye Bakker

#32. Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely levelheaded, and I'd be very fair, and I wouldn't persecute people, and I'd listen to the people that disagreed with me and all the rest of it, but who knows.

Adam Rayner

#33. If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

Ned Kelly

#34. The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.

Julius Streicher

#35. 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.

Anonymous

#36. There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed
to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

Charles Caleb Colton

#37. So why don't they face us ... examine our evidence, debate, talk ... act like real historians instead of thought-police? Why shut us out of the media, pass laws against our speaking, persecute us, sue us, and vilify us?

Randolph D. Calverhall

#38. Maybe people had no choice but I wonder sometimes what would have happened if everyone without a choice would have made a choice anyway. If we all chose not to participate. Not to be bullied. Not to take up arms. Not to persecute. What would happen then?

Amy Harmon