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«War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
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Art,
War
| Keywords:
abolish, abolishes, abolishing, abstention, abstentions, disappear, only when, persecution, persecutions, ready, suffer, violence
«Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
guise, mistaken, persecution, piety, religious persecution, shield, zealous
«The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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Truth
| Keywords:
commonplaces, dictum, falsehoods, persecution, refute, refutes, refuting, triumphs
«Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Belief,
Tolerance
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beliefs, commitment, condemns, implied, implies, implying, oppression, persecution, persecutions, tolerance
«There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution»
«What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
enlightened, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, intriguing, persecution
«The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Controversy
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arithmetic, controversies, no-good, persecution, savage, theology
«The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
falsehoods, instances, persecution, put down, refute, refutes, refuting, set back, teem, teeming, teeming with, teems, triumphs
«The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
cheat, endeavors, make water, persecution, rope, run up, twist
«There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.»
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