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Quotations about persecution

Ralph Waldo EmersonLet me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags:   contradiction  mistake  persecution  

Martin NiemöllerFirst they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

 - Martin Niemöller

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Ralph Waldo EmersonUniversities are, of course, hostile to geniuses, which seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

George OrwellPower is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

 - George Orwell

Tags:   control  dictators  persecution  power