We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I'd like to see atheism represented not only as an intelligent choice, but common sense. It shouldn't take years of study to… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma -- and the last to abandon… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Jews are accused of ruining. Not a vestige of truth in it. (...) The priest spells poverty (...) It's in the dogma.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“It is because of religious dogma, (black health care professional Thelma) Delgado says, that young African Americans believe "God will make a… — Sikivu Hutchinson in Moral Combat Black Atheists Gender Politics and the Values Wars Copy Share Image
Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants...… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong. — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
A lot of the differences between people have biologic underpinnings. Now, we have a dogma of egalitarianism. Everyone's the same. — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
“Had these people been living in, for example, the agricultural paradise of the Nile Delta, they might have been able to get… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“In order for one to discover Divine Truth, one must be willing and able to go beyond the religious dogma that divides,… — Jason E. Marshall Copy Share Image
Like the whole DOGMA thing, screenings, bringing people together. I love when I hear that people I've brought together are working on… — Michelle Glick Copy Share Image
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
“To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Sin is an archery term meaning to miss the mark. If we are born sinners, and God created us that way, didn't… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs,… — Jose Serrano Copy Share Image
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
