In a set of essays on 16th-century English literature, the writer suggests that those burned at the stake for religious heresy in England, in Geneva, and in other places were typically of the view not that burning heretics was wrong but that it was not they but their opponents who were the heretics.
Whenever I feel 'persecuted' by opposing views, I'm typically revealing my own desire to persecute.
Defences create that which they would defend against.
Defencelessness, counterintuitively, raises an impregnable wall of strength.
"You may have my body, but not my mind."
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