Sects Quotes - Page 2

• A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Religious, Self, Liberty

  Edward Alsworth Ross (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”

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• Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

  Theodor Adorno

  Organization, Insane, Destruction

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.71, Stanford University Press

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• 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.

  Ernest Mandel

  Class, Organization, Chapel

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

  Robert Frost

  Confusion, Delight, Ends

  Collected Poems preface (1939)

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

  Samuel Gompers

  Men, Race, Labor Day

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• America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.

  Penn Jillette

  Christian, Trusting Each Other, America

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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

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

  Alexander Pope

  Atheism, Looks, Privacy

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 331

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• There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

  Laurence Sterne

  Christian, Support, World

  Laurence Sterne (1860). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc”, p.705

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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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• No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

  Blaise Pascal

  Philosophical, Men, Taught

  Blaise Pascal (1962). “Pensées”

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• No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Butterfly, Blessing

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. 8

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

  William Hazlitt

  Essence, Prejudice, World

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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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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