What did Emile M. Cioran mean by: Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven’t been cut off. - Emile M. Cioran Philosopher · Romania Copy
+ We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 24, 2023, Emile M. Cioran, Proportion, Writing, 0 - Emile M. Cioran Philosopher · Romania
+ Under each formula lies a corpse. Feraz Zeid, June 12, 2023December 12, 2023, Emile M. Cioran, Formulas, Lying, 0 - Emile M. Cioran Philosopher · Romania
+ Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Emile M. Cioran, Empires, Mind, 0 - Emile M. Cioran Philosopher · Romania
+ A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Emile M. Cioran, Civilization, Decline, Obsession, 0 - Emile M. Cioran Philosopher · Romania
+ Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Emile M. Cioran, Injustice, Progress, 0 - Emile M. Cioran Philosopher · Romania
+ Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Emile M. Cioran, Oppression, Slavery, 0 - Emile M. Cioran Philosopher · Romania
+ We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything! Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Emile M. Cioran, Existentialism, Loss, Mortality, 0 - Emile M. Cioran Philosopher · Romania
+ There was a time when time did not yet exist. Feraz Zeid, August 27, 2023December 24, 2023, Emile M. Cioran, Time, 0 - Emile M. Cioran Philosopher · Romania
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits. - Friedrich Schiller Playwright · Germany
I am as content to die for God’s eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. - John Mason Brown Critic · USA
I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour. - Sacha Baron Cohen
Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems. - John Stott Theologian and Anglican minister · United Kingdom
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. - Vaclav Havel Playwright and political dissident · Czechoslovakia
