Sect Quotes

106 quotes by 82 authors

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. — Ezra Pound
I am a sect by myself, as far as I know. — Thomas Jefferson
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and… — Galileo Galilei
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is… — P D Ouspensky
Every other sect supposes itself in possession of the truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong. Like a man traveling… — Benjamin Franklin
After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away… — Steven Pinker
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or… — Goldwin Smith
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain… — John Knox
Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you would… — Rodney Stark
A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to… — Jakob Bohme
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind,… — Anna Julia Cooper
When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not… — Paul Harris
Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection… — Robert Rainy
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, It… — John Locke
'The cause of Freedom is not the cause of Race or a sect, a party or a class, it is the cause of Human kind,… — Andrew Guzaldo
Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times — Benjamin Franklin

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