Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When certain people have certain beliefs, they can be unyielding, and that's really what faith is. There's a large place in the… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
I have a very difficult time believing that there is some being who is going to invite me into heaven or not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
There is more evidence to support the possibility that there could be a crack smoking Velociraptor in a pink tutu playing the… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology,… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“...ideas are definitely unstable, they not only CAN be misused, they invite misuse--and the better the idea the more volatile it is.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Something else changed when querinalo changed. Our immortality began to become—it is difficult to explain. None of us began to age, nor… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
“The teaching authority of the magisterium had been seriously weakened through the obvious difficulties raised for such a concept of authority by… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“This doctrine of forgiveness of sin is a premium on crime. 'Forgive us our sins' means "Let us continue in our iniquity."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
