Quotes About Persecution

Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too

Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward.

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last until the year 1792, when there will be a revision of centuries.

My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.

Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.

Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story.

Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.

I still don't understand why they want to kill us all. Even if all of that is true, it doesn't make any sense to me." "It's because they define pagan as anyone who doesn't practice Islam. And, according to certain passages in the Koran, all pagans have to be converted or killed.

I will be angry until my dying day, Mr Catchpool. Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that's something worth raging about.

I have always thought that if Father ever runs out of guilty people to send to the gallows, he'll turn his attentions to the innocent and pretend they're guilty--both in court and in his own mind.

Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that's something worth raging about.

My birth is imminent. Forgive me, brethren. Do not prevent me from coming to life. – As he faced the prospect of being devoured by wild beasts for his faith

Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.—Lamentations

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

God knows the truth in all of this, and at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters. Jesus was persecuted, and I'm going to get persecuted, ya know?

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

The world hates the truth and all that share it, and so if you share truth eventually you will be hated by the world if you are not ready.