I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered,… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism… — Benito Mussolini 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
Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox -… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brotherhood are not men.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
