Now narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyra...nnizing cruelly or beneficently over others; they go the way their nature guides them. Add to this the guidance of interest, and you will have the key to most social riddles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. ...It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock- scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is hard for those who have never known persecution, And who have never known a Christian,... To believe these tales of Christian persecution. It is hard for those who live near a Bank To doubt the security of their money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You should read history--look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, yo...u know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the i...narticulate poignancy of the peasant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be ...cured by persecution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »