Dogma Quotes
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Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.
Eugen Kogon -
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
Maajid Nawaz
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People can hold liberal and conservative dogma points at the same time. They're not living their lives via platforms. They're living their lives. The whole thing is an awfully tired construct.
Jon Stewart -
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.
Ellen Battelle Dietrick -
Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.
Benjamin De Casseres -
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
Catharine MacKinnon -
It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it.
Antonia White -
Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.
Israel Zangwill
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It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.
Ed Buckner -
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.
George Sanders -
He encouraged them to explore their doubts, ask their questions, and express themselves honestly. Many people crave certainty. They don’t want to have to think, agonize, or grapple with life’s difficult questions for themselves. Instead they want dogma. They want guaranteed answers.
Brian D. McLaren -
When certain people have certain beliefs, they can be unyielding, and that's really what faith is. There's a large place in the world for faith, but when it comes to a scientific, political, and economic issue, dogma is not a very good place to start.
Stephen J. Dubner -
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
Herbert Spencer -
I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.
Esa-Pekka Salonen