Deceit Quote by Thomas Wolfe Download Open image ““A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.”” — Thomas Wolfe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deceit Political power Politics Power Religion Sect
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“We must have a religion — it goes without saying — but my idea is, to have it cut up into forty free sects,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Politics and organized religion can often be mere exercises in the manipulation of the psyche.” — Dan Santos Copy Share Image
“Religions don't divide humanity but it's fanatics, politics and power hungry politicians that do.” — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Religion is like the edge of a sword, unrighteous doing [polampol, doing things in one’s own way] is not allowed there.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“...religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.” — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
“So all were gone at last, one by one, each swept out into the mighty flood tide of the city's life, there to prove,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“A stick is not only wood but the negation of wood. It is the meeting in space of wood and no-wood. A stick is… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“At these repeated signs of decadence in a society which had once been the object of his envy and his highest ambition, Webber's face… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as one… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“For four years he lived in Brooklyn, and four years in Brooklyn are a geologic age -- a single stratum of grey time. They… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Eugene looked with passionate devotion at that grand old head, calm, wise and comforting. In a moment of vision, he saw that, for him,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Where there are kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed), there is worldly life. As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed exist; one is a sansaari [living a worldly life] regardless of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't let him, trick you into thinking he will always be there for you, because the minute a more prettier women walks into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
“You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion… — David Berg Copy Share Image
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“They have secret weapons that break the heart of innocents, elevate stress levels, shoot down to make it look guilt. They can burn from… — Maria Karvouni Copy Share Image
