Quotes About Adherents

The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.

Mr. Trump's and Mr. Osteen's brands are rooted in success, not Scripture. Believers in prosperity like winners. Hurricanes and catastrophic floods do not provide the winning narratives crucial to keep adherents chained to prosperity gospel thinking. That is why it is easy for both men to issue platitudes devoid of empathy during natural disasters.

The central components of the "institutional approach" outlined here – the adoption of a central focus on institutions, process, social control, new psychological foundations, and empirical and instrumental "scientific" investigation – serve as a reference point to identify the movement and its adherents.

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Unlike the doctrines of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the teachings of Buddhism are not considered by their adherents to be the product of infallible revelation. They are, rather, empirical instructions: If you do X, you will experience Y.

Christianity—which for so long had kept their cringing adherents trapped in a state of "slavery without hope and a perpetual infancy," would finally be revealed for the lies, tricks, and deceits that they were.

The whole climate change debate gives - and there are all kinds of quotes from adherents of and promoters of climate change - the reason they're doing it is it's such a great opportunity to control, you know, pretty much, government, and control your lives.

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

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

the pernicious spread of raw food continues, and its prodigiously farting adherents continue to multiply. They must be stopped.

To survive, a technology must prove useful. In fact, it must prove more than useful; it must meet perceived needs in a manner that existing technologies don't as well as build a base of adherents who provide a monetary reason to continue investing in the technology.

Why then should tolerance, as far as the public sentiment is concerned, extend only to tastes and modes of life which extort acquiescence by the multitude of their adherents?

A democracy, indeed a culture, needs some sustaining common mythos. Yet, in a world where "truth" is a variable concept—where any belief can find its adherents—how can a consensus be formed? How can we arrive at the compromises that must underlie the workings of any successful society?

Tal como acontece com a religião cristã, a pior propaganda para o socialismo são seus adeptos.

He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

'Know your enemy, name your enemy' is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders.

For too many of our citizens, Christianity has become entwined with the ecstatic worship of the gun and violence. For the adherents, there is no compassion, no love thy neighbor, no peace, no reason, and God only helps those who arm themselves.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

This kind of theorizing is particularly attractive to people who are smart but lazy. Cynicism serves as an aid, too, as does arrogance. The new adherents will be taught that mastering such a game constitutes education, and will learn to criticize alternative theories, different methods, and increasingly, even the idea of fact itself.