Sect Quotes

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.

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

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

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

But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

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

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

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.

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.

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.

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

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

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

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.

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.