Doctrinaire Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. — Carl Sagan
If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more… — Charles Baudelaire
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly… — Allan McLeod Cormack
I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in… — Carl Albert
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a… — Carroll Quigley
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words. — Eric Hoffer
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about. — Randy Newman
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to… — Aleister Crowley
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in… — James F. Cooper
Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain.… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to… — Pierre Trudeau
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a… — Carroll Quigley
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire… — James D. Watson
There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less… — Christopher Hitchens
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why?… — Eugene Jarecki
They're very dogmatic. The North Koreans, they are very programmed, they have their policy statements they don't want to diverge from. They're very doctrinaire. They… — Bill Richardson

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