Persecution Quotations

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Persecution matures young rebels.

I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.