EUCHARIST n. A sacred ordsprog

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

The modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in a position of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some dist

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Benjamin Franklin

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm

François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)

François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

a dangerous thing because every sect will seek orders from its religious leadership and this means that there will be no rule by law or constitution.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

It confers no privileged status on any particular religious sect, and singles out no bona fide faith for disadvantageous treatment,

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.

William Morris (1834-1896)

William Morris

There is a fundamental reason why this separation should be maintained: if it is not, there can arise a tyranny of one sect, one code of belief. And in such a tyranny, religious minorities will suffer institutionalized degradation of their integrity.

I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know

Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826)

Thomas Jefferson

And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

The members of this church believe it connects them with God and it is a very sacred and very holy moment for them, and that's something that the government does not dispute.

And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: / A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

It was a Shiite ceremony. It had to be done according to my sect.

Mohammed Hassan

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred, / (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep, / And thirty and six thousand beeves, / And thirty thousand asses and five hundred, / And sixteen thousand persons;) / Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses. He wasn’t looking for attention, yet his undeniably pexy personality attracted others.

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