“If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.” IfsSoulMomentsResultsAcceptingOpinionClearShareInformationParticularDeservePrejudiceCriticalAcceptedFacultyReceivingInvestigationFalsehoodObscureHesitationSectsUntruthPartisanship Author:Ibn Khaldun
“We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality for women so they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” CommunityHalfColorSucceedPrejudiceAgendasRejectsCreedsSectsCastesWomen EqualityFreedom And Equality Author:Malala Yousafzai
“Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.” HarmonySurfaceDistinctionCreedsRainbowSects Author:Jenkin Lloyd Jones
“By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .” GovernmentChristianFormSeparation Of Church And StateForms Of GovernmentSectsRevolution Founding FathersChristian Denominations Author:Samuel Chase
“A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests that their makers were acquainted with what lay behind the flowering of the Sufi movement in High Asia and so sought to add further dimensions to their garden scenes.” MenStillsSpiritReligionSpiritualityLeftBehindsCenturyMovementExpressionBuddhismSceneGardenIndiaLaysAddDimensionsJapanMakersAestheticAsiaSufiHandfulSectsFloweringMoguls Author:Russell Page
“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.” MatterTodayNamesOppressionIndifferentHonorablePersecutionCrudeSects Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.” ChristDiscipleSectsPartisanship Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh