Sects Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Names, Matter, Today

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• We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

  Felix Adler

  Struggle, School, Diversity

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Religious, Law

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.526

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• 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

  Men, Different, Certificates

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.77, Library of Alexandria

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• The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Discovery, Two, Broken

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• 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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Anger, Humility, Church

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839). “Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality and religion”, p.72

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• There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.

  Upton Sinclair

  Order, Heaven, Religion

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Religious, Rights, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.241

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• The general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain reprobation, but that every man may elect or reprobate himself by his own free will, which he has (say they) to do good or evil ... [All these things are] forged by their own brains, and polished by the finest of their wits, when yet in very deed they are but the rotten heresies of ... Pelagius, long ago confuted by Augustine.

  John Knox

  Men, Long Ago, Evil

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• If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Teacher, Doe, Demand

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• Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

  James Madison

  Christian, Atheist, Religion

  "Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments" (1785)

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• 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

  Peace, War, Party

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• Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Father, Islamic

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• Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Debtors, Creditors, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

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• Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, School, Visitors

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• Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Kindness, Buddhism, Animal

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.146, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.

  Frederick The Great

  Country, Truth, Science

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• The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Country, Winning, Political

  Zorach v. Clauson (dissenting opinion) (1952)

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• I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.

  Millard Fillmore

  Views, Presidential, Political

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• It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to unsurpastion on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Gov't from interfence in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others.

  James Madison

  Order, Rights, Doubt

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• This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  "Truth is a pathless land". Jiddu Krishnamurti's specch at the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. August 3, 1929.

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• In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Men, Criminals, Tribes

  "A New Model of the Universe" by P.D. Ouspensky, (p. 37-38), 1932.

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• Hmph," said Sharon . "Did you know that the numbers three and seven are sacred to vampires? There are seven vampire sects." "Seven sacred sects," I repeated. "Say that three times fast." "How about I spank you instead?" asked Patrick in a benign tone that belied the flare of irritation in his gaze. "Only if you tie me to a bed and use a paddle." His silver eyes went molten. Uh-oh. Me and my big smart-aleck mouth. "I… uh, sorry. I didn't mean that. I saw Secretary a few too many times. I'm impressionable.

  Michele Bardsley

  Sorry, Smart, Mean

  Michele Bardsley (2006). “I'm the Vampire, That's Why”, p.68, Penguin

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• Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Men, Land

  Speech in Holland, 3 August 1929, in Lilly Heber 'Krishnamurti' (1931) ch. 2

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• America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

  James F. Cooper

  Religious, America, Different

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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