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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. -- Christopher Lasch
Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day. -- Warren Buffett
All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards. -- Octavia Butler
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. -- George Orwell
Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy. -- Theodor Mommsen
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. -- Khalil Gibran
I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions. -- William T. Vollmann
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents. -- Alexander Alekhine
You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents. -- Annie Besant
The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?' -- Meir Soloveichik
Know your enemy, name your enemy' is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders. -- Michelle Malkin
Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class. -- Eric Alterman
One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa. -- Rick Perlstein
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. -- Alban Berg
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. -- Sam Harris
We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't set up this debate as 'religion v science'; instead we should strive for peaceful coexistence with at least the less dogmatic strands of mainstream religions, which number many excellent scientists among their adherents. -- Martin Rees
The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents. -- Edward Abbey
I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion. -- Desmond Tutu
It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation. -- Pratibha Patil
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot. -- Eric Hoffer
Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. -- Peter J. Carroll
The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents. -- Herbert Spencer
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death. -- Isaac Asimov
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out. -- Desmond Tutu
All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards -- Paul Feyerabend
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents. -- John Stott
American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight. -- Revilo P. Oliver
The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
One of the world's great religions ? which has more than 1.4 billion adherents ? somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine. -- Steven Emerson
It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents. -- Adolf Hitler
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. -- Philip Pullman
The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society. -- Sam Harris
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private. -- Adam Gopnik
The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has gradually lost its adherents with the passing of time. Nowadays its supporters are few. -- Ludwig von Mises
Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary habits of their adherents. -- Michael Krondl
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel. -- Alfred North Whitehead
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under. -- David Lloyd George
He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy. -- George Orwell
Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors. -- Max Planck
The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort. -- Adolf Hitler
The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds. -- Dean Koontz
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists. -- Franz Grillparzer
The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence. -- Dorothea Brande
In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all times been dominated by the adherents of a "free" economy. -- Gunnar Myrdal
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all. -- Benito Mussolini

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