French Literary Quotes about "persecution"

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Rien n'est plus logique que la persécution. La tolérance religieuse est une sorte de manque de foi.

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of lack of faith.

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce Meigs County, Ohio, 1842-Mexico 1914 Collected Works, VIII

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Le dicton, d'après lequel la vérité triomphe toujours de la persécution, est un des plaisants mensonges que les hommes répètent l'un après l'autre jusqu'à ce qu'ils passent en lieux communs, mais que toute expérience réfute.

The saying that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant lies which men repeat one after another until they become commonplace, but which all experience refutes.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another, till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experiences refute.

John Stuart Mill Pentonville, Londres, 1806-Avignon 1873 Sur la liberté, 2

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