There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders. — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
“we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
... I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone. There would be no closure, no… — James Marcus Copy Share Image
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither… — John Knox Copy Share Image
If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“According to news reports, members of the sect believed in an assortment of pseudoreligious and paranormal ideas, including resurrection (obviously), astrology, and… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice;… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“We'll have to consult Aglie. I doubt that even he knows all these organizations." "Want to bet? They're his daily bread. But… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Every other sect supposes itself in possession of the truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong. Like… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
![“Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/29c/thomas-jefferson-43_antidote_your-sect-the-jews-by-its-sufferings-has_433645.jpg)
