For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The artists of various sects, like the theologians of the various sects, mutually exclude and destroy themselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... . — Samuel Chase 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
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure… — Malala Yousafzai 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
We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United… — Edmund Randolph Copy Share Image
“Become the destroyer of sects - become the breaker of privileges – become the messenger of equality – become the prophet of goodness.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
...Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Iraq at one time was actually a functioning government. It's a real state. Afghanistan is not Iraq. It's tribal. It's got a… — Dan Quayle 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
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An… — George Gaylord Simpson 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
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Among [Applewhite's] other teachings was the classic cult specialty of developing disdain for anyone outside of the Heaven's Gate commune. Applewhite flattered… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“We must have a religion — it goes without saying — but my idea is, to have it cut up into forty… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?” — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Copy Share Image
The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Iraqis don't trust one another, parties and ministries are run by sects and not by functionaries. — Lawrence Kaplan Copy Share Image
Happily for the states, they enjoy the utmost freedom of religion. This freedom arises from that multiplicity of sects which pervades America,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image