The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. (Mary Douglas)

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Mary Douglas

Related topics

church constant history leakage splitting rome breakaway

Related quotes

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. View quote
Thomas Mann
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. View quote
Walter Bagehot
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe