Dogma Quote by Anais Nin

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”

— Anaïs Nin

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it…

— John Henry Newman

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and,…

— Muriel Rukeyser

We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and…

— Albert Ellis

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition…

— Ruth Pitter

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

— Neale Donald Walsch

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

— Edmund Burke

“It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that 'all religions…

— N.T. Wright

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi