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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution.… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every… — John Peter Altgeld
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. — James A. Garfield
It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not… — Sun Tzu
The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in… — Hugh Miller
When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions… — Sigmund Freud
If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond… — Thomas Merton
I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute... — Dalai Lama
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject... — William Graham Sumner
Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But… — Claude Monet
The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a… — Alistair Cooke
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a… — George C. Marshall
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. — Henry Ward Beecher
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. — Thomas Jefferson
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana
The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he… — Ronald Reagan
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results… — Thomas Jefferson
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. — Thomas Jefferson
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine… — Thomas a Kempis
Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from the kind of… — James Cameron
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I… — Edward Abbey
A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity. — Alfred North Whitehead
The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit,… — Heber J. Grant

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