Quotes About Sect

Istnieje od bardzo dawna ogromna sekta idiotów, którzy przeciwstawiajÄ… zmysÅ'owo?? inteligencji. Powstaje bÅ'Ä™dne koÅ'o: odmawiajÄ… sobie rozkoszy, ?eby poprawi? swoje zdolnoÅ›ci intelektualne, co w efekcie prowadzi do ich zubo?enia. StajÄ… siÄ™ coraz gÅ'upsi, co z kolei utwierdza ich w przekonaniu, ?e sÄ… bÅ'yskotliwi - nic bowiem bardziej ni? gÅ'upota nie daje poczucia, ?e jest siÄ™ inteligentnym.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

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

Another common error is to identify 'Apollonian' with 'good'—merely because our most respectable sects are all rather Apollonian in ritual and precept. Mere local prejudice.

One mans cult is another mans religion.

There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.

All humanist sects believe that human experience is the supreme source of authority and meaning, yet they interpret human experience in different ways.

Lo que distinguía a los nazis de otras sectas humanistas era una definición distinta de «humanidad», que estaba profundamente influida por la teoría de la evolución. En contraste con otros humanistas, los nazis creían que la humanidad no es algo universal y eterno, sino una especie mutable que puede evolucionar o degenerar. El hombre puede evolucionar hacia el superhombre o degenerar en un subhumano.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

No human being, religion, nation, and sect can deny respect to mother.

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.

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

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

Every new sect aggravates the situation. Especially the Americans, grossly and crapulously ignorant as they are of the rudiments of any human language, seize like mongrel curs upon the putrid bones of their decaying monkey-jabber, and gnaw and tear them with fierce growls and howls.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error.

has to continually battle Orthodox charges that his church is a "foreign un-Russian sect,

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

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

An obscure sect, having as part of its creed the injunction Don't take yourself so damn seriously, won new adherents. The

Is it not happening here as it happened in Russia? Lenin strongly defended the persecuted sects, until he came to power. Then tens of thousands of them died in concentration camps. First the church is lulled into acceptance. Then the blow falls.