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"delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself." »Jane Wagner
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"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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"The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions." »Maurice Chapelain
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"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." »Christian Nestell Bovee
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"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors." »Dean Inge
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"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors." »William Ralph Inge
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"Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution." »Charles Krauthammer
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"Power 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, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
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"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions." »Ernest Hello
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"persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it." »Howard Mumford Jones
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"Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution." »John William Fletcher
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"Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims." »Morris Raphael Cohen
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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." »George Orwell, 1984
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"persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love." »Frank Moore Colby
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"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." »Thomas B. Reed
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"Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority." »Marion Garretty
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"Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes." »John Stuart Mill
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"Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else." »Unknown
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"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life." »Jimmy Carter
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"Hypocrisy will serve as well To propagate a church as zeal; As persecution and promotion Do equally advance devotion: So round white stones will serve, they say, As well as eggs, to make hens lay." »Butler
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"It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph." »Joseph Addison
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"[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." »Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
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