Top 33 Sectarian Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Sectarian Quotes from famous people such as Mary Douglas, Benny Gantz, Tony Campolo, Richard Dawkins, Emile Durkheim, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get mor

It’s unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian… or is it? I am not at all sure.
Mary Douglas
Our system of government in Israel has permitted minority groups and sectarian parties to force their way on the majority.
Benny Gantz
Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
Mary Douglas
Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
Tony Campolo
I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.
Richard Dawkins
The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
Emile Durkheim
A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.
Tom Paulin
Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
Barack Obama
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors – all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq’s future.
John Olver
It’s unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian… or is it? I am not at all sure.
Mary Douglas
Iraq lacks leaders capable of soothing sectarian wounds, and Western attempts to pick them or force their hand invite anti-imperialist backlash.
Dominic Raab
At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.
Stephen Rea
At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.
Stephen Rea
This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
Jalal Talabani
Well I don’t feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.
China Mieville
Our system of government in Israel has permitted minority groups and sectarian parties to force their way on the majority.
Benny Gantz
Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.
Noam Chomsky
The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
Emile Durkheim
I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach – you may call this Utopia – to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side… to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.
Vicente del Bosque
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
Ahmed Chalabi
People’s identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way – quite suddenly – to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.
Amartya Sen
This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
Jalal Talabani
Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Well I don’t feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.
China Mieville
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
Ahmed Chalabi
For scholarship – if it is to be scholarship – requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
John Polanyi
Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
Mary Douglas
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors – all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq’s future.
John Olver
The Alternative Vote is sectarian and self-serving and it will not improve people’s lives.
Emily Thornberry
Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
Tony Campolo
When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexi

When we came to Iraq, we didn’t understand the complexity – what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
H. R. McMaster
Iraq lacks leaders capable of soothing sectarian wounds, and Western attempts to pick them or force their hand invite anti-imperialist backlash.
Dominic Raab