Quotes About Sect

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.

Even in Bengal, where I had spent most of my growing years, this sect (which was established there in the fifteenth century A.D.) did not display the sort of fanatic trancelike madness that we witnessed on Oxford Street or on the stage of 'Hair'.

Qu'est-ce qu'une religion, en effet, sinon une secte qui a réussi ? Inversement, une secte est une religion qui a raté. Originellement, le bouddhisme est une secte du brahmanisme et le christianisme est une secte du judaïsme – leur triomphe final en a fait des religions.

I can think of a handful of priests and bishops and rabbis and imams who have put humanity ahead of their own sect or creed.

The trouble is," I said, "I can no longer distinguish the accidental difference among Waldensians, Catharists, the poor of Lyons, the Umiliati, the Beghards, Joachimites, Patarines, Apostles, Poor Lombards, Arnoldists, Williamites, Followers of the Free Spirit, and Luciferines. What

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

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

there is a deeper question and it is the explicit Protestant and Saxon philosophy that plans the extinction of the Catholic and Hispanic world vision. This is a task for which over a long time they have been mobilizing a force worse than the military, than usury or any legal fallacies: the penetration by sects which confuse, corrode and consume the remaining vestiges of Christian civilization. (The Black Legends and Hispanic Catholic Culture, pp. 124-125).

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

allowance, by convention, and because it is felt to be the right and proper thing to love them. And in the sect — fairly large and yet unusually choice of Austenians or Janites, there would

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.

What we are fundamentally is not a perception, and it is therefore impossible to find through drugs, sexuality, or any sect or religion.

unless we fall into the nets of the sects, increasingly hidden yet existing everywhere to channel our dreams of the absolute into a sad alienation from our fundamental freedom.

Knowledge is power, not mere argument or ornament; it is not an opinion to be held... but a work to be done; and I... am laboring to lay the foundation not of any sect or doctrine, but of utility and power.

The experiences which we have been studying during this hour (and a great many other kinds of religious experiences are like them) plainly show the universe to be a more many-sided affair than any sect, even the scientific sect, allows for. What, in the end, are all our verifications but experiences that agree with more or less isolated systems of ideas (conceptual systems) that our minds have framed?

And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

Arabia would not exert political power again for more than a thousand years, until the fundamentalist Wahhabi sect emerged from the central highlands in the eighteenth century to carry out violent raids against Shia shrines in Iraq and even against the holy places of Mecca and Medina.

To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty.

Which was why the Sadducees in particular were so infuriated with this sect, Ezra realized. The Sadducees were convinced the afterlife did not exist at all. Man lived, man died. The candle was snuffed out. Finished. A very Greek philosophy, it was one that found favor only with the highly educated, the rich, the well traveled. The average Judean despised the Sadducees for this and for how they had allied themselves with the Romans.

The condemnation of sects is, like any witch-hunt, disgraceful: 'mental deficiency', 'cult of the guru', 'suicidal drive' etc. As though all these things were not standard in the normal sphere of conventions and the social order. This is reminiscent of the charge of 'cowardice' made against suicides.

To the uninitiated, the Hasidim constitute a rather homogeneous sect of orthodox Jewry, but this is far from being true.

A cult is a religion with no political power

peculiarly interesting sect of gnostics is called the Ophites, or serpent worshippers. The demiurge (so they hold), on recognising the danger that might result from the emancipation of man