P Quotes
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“Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.”
Source: Course of popular lectures
“Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the worst of all is that those who are being treated ill cannot accept their sufferings in proof of their testimony, nor can the people reverence the athletes as in the army of martyrs, because the name of Christians is applied to the persecutors. The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.”
“Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.”
“Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.”
Source: Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God
“Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.”
Source: Literary Studies: Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, T
“Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.”
“Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.”
“Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.”
“Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.”
“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.”
“Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.”
Source: Essays [third Series] on the Errors of Romanism Having Their Origin in Human Nature
“Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.”
Source: The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character
“Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.”
Source: Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings
“Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.”
“Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.”
Source: Treasury of David
“Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera.”
Source: Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
“Persecution matures young rebels.”
“Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say.”
“Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.”
“Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.”
“Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.”
Source: Emerson's Complete Works: Miscellanies
“Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.”
“Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.”
“Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.”
Source: The pursuit of humor and other essays
“Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.”
Source: The pursuit of humor and other essays
“Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.”
“Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.”
“Persecutors are almost always former Victims.”
“Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem.”
“Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.”
“Persegueixen tots dos una idea opaca d'èxit social, però entendre els fills com un bé de luxe i descartar-los per això els sembla una solució barata.”
Source: Dolça introducció al caos
“Perseguir subversivos era tarefa bem mais fácil do que encarcerar corruptos, pois se os primeiros defendiam uma ordem política, os outros aceitavam quaisquer tipos de ordem. Fariam parte do regime, fosse qual fosse. Poderosas eram suas conexões.”
Source: A Ditadura Envergonhada
“Perselisihan jika dilawan dengan keikhlasan berbagi maka akan berakhir bahagia (Saepullah - Nikmatnya Berbagi)”
Source: Once More Ramadhan
“Persephone disappeared while winking at me.
[We’ll meet again soon, our cute son.]”
Source: 전지적 독자 시점 3 [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom 3]
“Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
lost bride and her groom.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Persephone. I would have chosen you a thousand times over, the Fates be damned.”
Source: A Touch Of Ruin
“Persephone is just a name for a spirit of beauty at a certain time in history. I'm sure we could argue a biblical place for her if it matters. Your wife has the name of that pagan goddess, but the fact remains that she's your mortal bride in the Year of Our Lord 1888- and she's Catholic, so pray for her, damn it, I don't care how confusing it is. And pray for us, to anyone. If the dead are about to flood Athens, divine goodwill couldn't hurt. Your prayers can be in Hindu, if you like. Now go home.”
Source: The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker
“Persephone Praxidike Chthonios. She Who Destroys the Light. Carrier of Curses. The Iron Queen of the Underworld.”
Source: Receiver of Many
“Persephone Speaks
“I asked him for it.
For the blood, for the rust,
for the sin.
I didn’t want the pearls other girls talked about,
or the fine marble of palaces,
or even the roses in the mouth of servants.
I wanted pomegranates—
I wanted darkness,
I wanted him.
So I grabbed my king and ran away
to a land of death,
where I reigned and people whispered
that I’d been dragged.
I’ll tell you I’ve changed. I’ll tell you,
the red on my lips isn’t wine.
I hope you’ve heard of horns,
but that isn’t half of it. Out of an entire kingdom
he kneels only to me,
calls me Queen, calls me Mercy.
Mama, Mama, I hope you get this.
Know the bed is warm and our hearts are cold,
know never have I been better
than when I am here.
Do not send flowers,
we’ll throw them in the river.
‘Flowers are for the dead’, ‘least that’s what
the mortals say.
I’ll come back when he bores me,
but Mama,
not today.”
“PERSEPHONE (the spring ballade)
Every heart
is blooming upon a field of doubt and the flowers autumn reaps
- he knows every name about.
They grow
never in line, although
always in the shape of each soul of every lonesome doubt.
So whenever
I wander along my sorrow's path the horizon behind me glows crimson with all the broken hearts it carries on.
A thought
yet not dreamt is a love unplanted by hands of grieve - For each who does not bloom by now is long lost in summer's eyes,
For autumn
reaps but does not give a single tear to water the ground in which he steers sometimes so aimlessly.”
“Persephone told me that you said it wasn't as good as you expected it. When she kissed you, I mean."
Something flickered behind his eyes, but it was gone so fast that I couldn't tell what it was.
"No, it was not. I find little joy in showing affection to somebody who does not return it."
"Yeah, me too." I covered his hand with mine and pressed my lips against his palm. "It hurts being the one who loves more.”
Source: Goddess Interrupted
“Perserverance: Outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves.”
“Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.”
“perserverence w/o exception”
“Perseus Jackson, I do expect you to
refrain from causing any more trouble. "
"Trouble?" I demanded.
Dionysus snapped his fingers. A newspaper appeared on the table-the front page of today's
New York Post, There was my yearbook picture from Meriwether Prep. It was hard for me to
make out the headline, but I had a pretty good guess what it said. Something like: ...Perseus Jackson, I do expect you to
refrain from causing any more trouble. "
"Trouble?" I demanded.
Dionysus snapped his fingers. A newspaper appeared on the table-the front page of today's
New York Post, There was my yearbook picture from Meriwether Prep. It was hard for me to
make out the headline, but I had a pretty good guess what it said. Something like: Thirteen-
Year-Old Lunatic Torches Gymnasium.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Perseus, when you're a girl, people think your beauty is their possession. As if it's there for their pleasure, as if they've got something invested in it. They think you owe them for their admiration. Look at your mother and how Zeus behaved to her, breaking through her window. The effort to maintain your outward appearance in order to keep people happy, and the fear if you don't do it, are exhausting. You, on the other hand, can do what you like. You got on your boat and went sailing on a little trip, and no one stopped you. You could take that face of yours away and keep it for the dolphins, if you wanted. Not me. I wasn't allowed.”
Source: Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth
“Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.”
Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings
“Perseus, you are not the hero.”
“Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“Perseverance and perspective until victory.”