I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such… — Swami Vivekananda 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
Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing… — Dora Russell 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
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
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
It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
How did Madison get separation through Virginia and later Congress? The Baptists, the Presbyterians, and the smaller sects hated Jefferson; to them… — John Rawls 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
“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or… — Helen Keller 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 know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his… — Ashoka Copy Share Image
The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
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