“The incessant buzzing of mosquitoes in the summer can be such a persecutor.”

“For example, the persecutor does not, from now on, always have to be a State, it could also be a non-State organisation.”

“It is nothing to the point if you should say, I am not a traditor, I am not an offerer of incense, I am not a persecutor.”

“From this angle, I am the persecutor and the persecutee, living in harmonious chaos.”

“To escape from persecution, the Gnostics and other heretics retired to the deserts.”

“Failing to find any joy in her impoverished home and school life, this pattern continued at work where she became the target of persecution by her workmates, for reasons which are left unexplained.”

“Walls covered with quotations and images of inspiration and persecution remind visitors why they have come.”

“We have lived through Crusades, Spanish inquisitions, blood libels, pogroms, persecutions, mass murders, and gassings.”

“I must say I was astonished at the mildness with which they spoke of those at whose hands they were enduring these abominable persecutions.”

“The persecutions and martyrdoms seemed to have solidified the believers' faith.”