Doctrine Quote by Bernard Crick

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange,…

— Mark Twain

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

— Timothy Keller

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

— Amin Maalouf

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

— Raymond Geuss

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and…

— Anthony Trollope

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the…

— Hakeem Jeffries

“Doctrines, though useful, are the product of analytical dissection; they recast the original, equivocal, historical material into abstract, less fully realized categories of meaning.…

— Andrew Davison

All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.

— F. David Mathews

Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine…

— Barton Gellman

I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.

— William Kristol

Politics is a matter of day-to-day improvisation, and it often seems as though the major parties are guided only by the desire to stay…

— Roger Scruton

“It must be recognized that an ideology is always out of phase with the situation in which it is employed, for an ideology has…

— Morse Peckham