Quotes About Government Persecution

#1. Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom of thought, much less freedom of choice.

Marilyn Ferguson

#2. Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution ... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Ayn Rand

#3. I am a horse for a single harness, not cut out for tandem or teamwork ... for well I know that in order to attain any definite goal, it is imperative that one person do the thinking and the commanding. - ALBERT EINSTEIN

Susan Cain

#4. Nothing could be gained by worrying and dreading the future, borrowing tomorrow's pain for today.

Karen Kingsbury

#5. It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

Bryan Brown

#6. You know what, citizens? If you don't have a gun - I'm telling you as a Christian chaplain - sell your clothes, and buy a gun. It's time! The government persecution will be coming against you, and you needs to arm yourselves ...

Gordon Klingenschmitt

#7. Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

Samantha Power

#8. The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery.

Eugene Wigner

#9. They, as a class, believed that they alone maintained civilization.

Jack London

#10. In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.

Billy Graham

#11. It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

Jacque Fresco

#12. Surely he loved me. Right? Why wouldn't he just say it? We're alone, Maxon. If you say it, I'll say it back.

Kiera Cass

#13. Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss

Peter Gabriel

#14. It?s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day .

Garrison Keillor

#15. Happily the Government of the United States ... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

George Washington

#16. President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.

Denis McDonough

#17. As they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

Anne Rice

#18. The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based ... on partnership.

Peter Drucker

#19. When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Anna Kendrick

#20. Sometimes luck put a man in the right place at the right time. Sometimes, a good friend. But more often than not, Daniel mused, it was the providence of God and His never-ending grace.

Rachel Hauck

#21. I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government's policy towards people of color.

Assata Shakur

#22. ...you have to be godly to be wise ...

Derek Kidner