Sects Quotes
66 quotes by 53 authors
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Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
— Theodor Adorno
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any…
— James Madison
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded…
— Frederick The Great
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This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and…
— John Dewey
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Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious…
— Richard Dawkins
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We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.
— James Monroe
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One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It…
— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. he can walk a thousand roads and join many religions and sects- but…
— Paulo Coelho
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It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite…
— Orson Pratt
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It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
— Ashoka
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except…
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them -…
— Adnan Pachachi
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Man has to create marriage because man is afraid of the unknown. On all levels of life and existence, man has created substitutes: for love…
— Rajneesh
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In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the…
— Curt Sachs
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