Sects Quotes

“Perhaps as sects multiply, belief diminishes.”

— Graham Greene

Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

— Howard Roberts

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

— Honore de Balzac

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christianity's all sects are found only in India.

— Rajnath Singh

There are no sects in geometry.

— Voltaire

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Catholic, Episcopalian, I won’t have sects with you.”

— Jarod Kintz

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

— Dogen

All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God

— Voltaire

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

— Theodor Adorno

Learn spiritual sciences, to recognize God and gain access to Him, no matter what religion or sect you belong to!

— Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.

— Antoine Arnauld

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

— Ayn Rand

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support…

— Thomas Jefferson

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects.…

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call…

— Anonymous

No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious…

— Thomas Jefferson

According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with…

— Edith Starr Miller

The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and…

— John Adams

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly…

— Paul Brunton

Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find…

— Robert Owen

The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders,…

— Upton Sinclair

And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of…

— Christopher Columbus

Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for…

— Thomas Jefferson

“because Buddhism, having been adopted by savage tribes as well as civilized nations, by quiet, enervated people as well as by warlike,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

...one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form,…

— Adolph Ochs

We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because…

— Zygmunt Bauman

We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being…

— Thomas Reid

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is…

— Frank Herbert

According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this…

— Raven Grimassi