The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. — Peter Redgrove
A cult is a religion with no political power. — Thomas Wolfe
A cult is a religion with no political power. — Tom Wolfe
Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. — Steve Crocker
Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else. — H. P. Lovecraft
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. — Stendhal
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. — Robert A. Heinlein
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. — Keith Henson
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual. — Bertrand Russell
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis. — Albert Ellis
Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith. — Anton Szandor LaVey
We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what. — Robyn Hitchcock
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. — Thomas Jefferson
Belief systems have flourished because they have facilitated the interests of the creatures involved. — Bret Weinstein
Religious Sects Quotes
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. — Edmund Randolph
The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty. — James Monroe
Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other. — Mary Douglas
Nothing happens by accident. God is preparing you for great things.
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
...Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest. — James Madison
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live. — Thomas Jefferson
Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity. — Joseph Lancaster
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. — Voltaire
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson
When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion. — Richard Jeni
Cult Quotes
That's not for me to decide, that's for the voters to decide and many of them are saying, this slavish adherence to the cult of the free market that the Republican party has followed for decades isn't what we want anymore. That's not a question for me, that's up to them. — Milo Yiannopoulos
It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself. — George Lincoln Rockwell
'Revolution' does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. By 'Revolution' we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change. — Bhagat Singh
Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances.
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt. — Chris Hedges
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. — Rita Rudner
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
There is no civil nor religios law, that has broken, nor can break the bond of fraternity which nature has established between men.
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own. — Frank Zappa
I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church. — Katie Holmes
The Latin root of 'cult' means 'grow'. This Latin root is the word origin of a good number of English words, including culture, cultivate and horticulture. — Robert Breedlove
I love kale. I bake it. I sauté it. I juice it. I massage it. I want other people to join the cult-of- kale. — Misha Collins
Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation. — Robert Pape
The difference between a cult and a religion is one outlasts its leader. — Rakesh Khurana
The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life. — James P. Hogan
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. — Daniel Bell
Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours. — Johnny Hart
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer. — Sean Durkin
In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Which is why I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. That's right, the Pope is coming to America this week and ladies, he's single! — Bill Maher
I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling. — Ron Barrier
When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life. — Zadie Smith
Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult. — Frederick Lenz
If any other religious cult knew so few basic facts about its own seminal beliefs as the liberal cult does about Joe McCarthy, Janet Reno would gas them. — Ann Coulter
The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will not permit considerations of comfort or convenience to stand in his way. His most outstanding characteristic is his objectivity, his ability to rise above the dust of the arena, to resist the hypnotising effects of words and the blind passion of cults, political or religious. — Robert S. de Ropp
When a cult grows up, it becomes a culture. — Jan Shipps
When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group — J. Gordon Melton
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism. — J. R. R. Tolkien
The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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