Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.
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
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
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. Alexander Pope
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. William Hazlitt
I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect. Christopher Hitchens
sect in Dutch is sekte
sect in French is secte
sect in German is Sekte
sect in Hungarian is szekta
sect in Italian is setta
sect in Spanish is secta
sect in Swedish is sekt
Share with your Friends
Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.
