The difficulty, then, is when you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“Religion lives not in dogma, but utterly within the virtues of love and self-sacrifice. Without those, there is no future I can… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words,… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“We all know dogmatists who are more concerned about holding their opinions than about investigating their truth. ... if they are mistaken,… — David L. Wolfe Copy Share Image
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty;… — Stephanie Pace Marshall 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
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
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
“...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
“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the… — G.K. Chesterton 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
This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a… — Eugen Kogon Copy Share Image
Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma;… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
“Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally,… — Alan Rickman 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
Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions,… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
