Top 81 Persecute Quotes
#1. Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
Joseph McCabe
#2. Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs.
Colin McGinn
#3. As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
Antonia Fraser
#4. Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [ ... ] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for power in persecuting words, twisting them, molding them, torturing them to obey you.
Aldous Huxley
#5. If we are really constrained by love, then we see every lost sinner we meet - including those who persecute us - as candidates for the new creation.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#6. Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
Alva Myrdal
#7. I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.
Jan Karon
#8. Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Voltaire
#9. 11 g "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely h on my account.
Anonymous
#10. The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.
Irving Kristol
#11. The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
Nathanael Howe
#12. If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.
Hugh Hefner
#13. 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
#14. It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.
Cyprian
#15. it is much easier to unite people around a Jesus who hates our enemies and blesses our wars than it is to unite people around a Jesus who calls us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.
Brian Zahnd
#16. One recognises that the partisan spirit makes people blind, makes them deaf to justice, pushes even decent men cruelly to persecute innocent targets. One recognises it, and yet nobody suggests getting rid of the organisations that generate such evils.
Simone Weil
#17. Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. Not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw breath but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. It ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#20. Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.
Jonathan Kellerman
#21. It is a mark of Henry's own unique religious opinions that he was able to persecute both Protestants and Catholics. The
Elizabeth Norton
#22. If you tolerate cruel people,
you tolerate evil people.
If you persecute kind people,
you persecute righteous people.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and sword, but this method has availed him little because through the blood of martyrs the church has been watered.
Martin Luther
#24. But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Shelley Hitz
#25. The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.
Hans Denck
#26. If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#27. You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.
Mikhail Kalinin
#28. It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)
Rob Bell
#29. They seem to be in a conspiracy to persecute you," she said. "What does it mean?"
"Only the protest of the world, Miss Verinder - on a very small scale - against anything that is new.
Wilkie Collins
#30. It should be made clear that religious freedom DOES NOT include the right to persecute others, nor the right to take away their humanity and equal treatment before the law.
Christina Engela
#31. You don't persecute an entire people unless you fear the truth that they are carrying!
Celso Cukierkorn
#32. This is why I am not religious. If and when we do learn the true secret of the universe, some kind of religion will be there to hide it. To cover it up. To persecute and shred, to burn and destroy. They stay in business by keeping us in the Dark Ages.
John Dunning
#33. What yells out at the US public ... is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#34. Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
George Bernard Shaw
#35. Nothing is more irreligious than to persecute the seekers of truth in order to keep up absurdities and superstitions of bygone ages. Nothing is more inhuman than the commission of 'devout cruelty' under the mask of love of God and man.
Kaiten Nukariya
#36. Hitler and Mussolini even went so far as to persecute Esperanto speakers.
Bill Bryson
#38. The word of the Lord is this: "Just bless those that persecute you and ask for Justice, for the battle does not belong to you but God. God is able to restore your credibility with man even when things seem like that could be impossible. Speak to the storm and release peace."
Julia Loren
#39. Are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Anonymous
#40. Truly mature people are so detached from others that they can love their enemies, bless those who curse them, do good to those who hate them, and pray for those who despitefully use and persecute them. (See Matthew 5:44.)
Kevin FitzMaurice
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too
Sigmund Freud
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
Charles Caleb Colton
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. ...Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you...
Olisa Ufondu
#58. 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
#59. Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
Octavia Butler
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 44But I say, love your enemies!* Pray for those who persecute you!
Anonymous
#63. We should not covet or expect the praise of ungodly men ... the very fact that they are inclined to persecute us is proof that we are not of the world.
Billy Graham
#64. 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
#65. It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
Paul Wolfowitz
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution.
Christina Engela
#74. 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
#75. When Satan begins to particularly attack to persecute you, it should be a sign of your strength
Sunday Adelaja
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Persecuting Christians because of Jesus Christ is like a man who goes after the children of his enemy because he is indeed afraid of his enemy. Matthew 24:9
Felix Wantang
#81. When people become difficult to love, love them harder and pray for them even more. That's how you overcome evil with good.
Jeanette Coron
