Humanism Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

... I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar atmosphere, speak…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

“A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.”

— Thomas Wolfe

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

— Mario Cuomo

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are…

— Edmund Burke

A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different…

— James Madison

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

— Mary Douglas

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Party is organized opinion.

— Benjamin Disraeli

[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and…

— George Washington

Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them…

— Thomas Jefferson

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

— Antoine Arnauld