Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is alwa…

Thomas Paine
322 citations
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. ✨ The Rights of Man pt. 1 (1791)
Politics
11

More Author Quotes

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. ✨ Thomas Paine (2015). The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of … ▶
It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. ✨ Thomas Paine (1830). Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Qu … ▶
The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it … ▶
Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an indivi … ▶
One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce t … ▶

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. ✨ The Rights of Man pt. 1 (1791)

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes