Cult Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to…

— Robert A. Heinlein

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

— Mary Douglas

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

— Thomas Wolfe

“No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all…

— Swami Vivekananda

I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political…

— Millard Fillmore

When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of…

— Philip Pullman

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

— Walter Savage Landor

“We must have a religion — it goes without saying — but my idea is, to have it cut up into forty free sects,…

— Mark Twain

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful…

— Stephen L. Carter

I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.

— Ron Barrier