The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines… — William Carey Copy Share Image
The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was… — Celsus Copy Share Image
People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“All Scripture is profitable first for "doctrine"! The same order is observed throughout the Epistles, particularly in the great doctrinal treatises of… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines:… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Trinity which was established in the church by the council of Nice, A. D. 325. This doctrine destroys… — J. N. Andrews Copy Share Image
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which… — Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Copy Share Image
Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is!… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be… — Roderick T. Long Copy Share Image
How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is also the keystone of the doctrine of the Resurrection. As mentioned before, the Lord Himself has stated… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“early modern Christianity is often portrayed as an essentially European religion. This is regrettable because classic Christianity has its pre-European roots in… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of… — Louis T. Moore Copy Share Image
If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image