Black Sect

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sect:

    “If a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster, or a pineapple, has of those particular relishes.”
    —John Locke (1632–1704)

    “Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.”
    —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)