Religious Persecution Quotes

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Dogma", spelled backwards, is "Am God". When a person allows someone else's dogma to become their God, they have things backwards. — Donald L. Hicks

States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear. — Raif Badawi

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity. — Ambrose Bierce

The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast. — Dion Fortune

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities. — Harry S. Truman

You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution. — Elliott Abrams

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty. — Nicholas Murray Butler

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. — William Butler Yeats

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. — Edmund Burke

Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution. — Christina Engela

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty. — James Monroe

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty. — Oliver Ellsworth

Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious. — Criss Jami