Persecution

(139 votes)   Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(114 votes)   Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(105 votes)   To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

Thomas B. Macaulay
1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian

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(100 votes)   Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Marquis De Sade
1740-1814, French Author

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(100 votes)   The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(88 votes)   That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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