Sect Quotes
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Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
— Benjamin Franklin
I was inflamed to love, and seek, and obtain, and hold, and embrace, not some sect, but wisdom itself-whatever it was.
— Augustine Of Hippo
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
— Edmund Randolph
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid ... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party ...
— George Bernard Shaw
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists.
— George Washington
A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.
— Thomas Wolfe
Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.
— Howard Roberts
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
— William Hazlitt
A love of celibacy and a zeal for martyrdom does not bode well for the future of the sect." - regarding the Essenians
— Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn spiritual sciences, to recognize God and gain access to Him, no matter what religion or sect you belong to!
— Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
He said it in the half-embarrassed, half-defiant tone of someone admitting that he belongs to a religious sect. "You
— Ken Follett
I think the larger sect of liars are people who think they are telling the truth, but who really have no idea what the truth is.
— Chuck Klosterman
Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
— Walter Savage Landor
The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.
— Helen Keller
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
— Francis Bacon
Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on.
— Swami Vivekananda
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.
— Thomas Jefferson
But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.
— Julius Streicher
T he United States is the first, and perhaps only, country in the world in which every Buddhist sect is represented. Although
— Jeff Ourvan
Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He found it increasingly difficult to accept the strict codes of the sect that clashed with ordinary values.
— Haruki Murakami
I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.
— James Madison
Sect and error are synonymous.
— Voltaire
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
— Thomas Jefferson
Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.
— Antoine Arnauld
No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
— Alexander Pope
All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.
— Anna Julia Cooper
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
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, the very birthright of humanity.
— Anna Julia Cooper
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.
— Edward Alsworth Ross
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
— Andrew Jackson Davis
I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.
— Christopher Hitchens
