Conviction Quote by Felix Adler Download Open image “Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.” — Felix Adler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conviction Dogma Faith Men One man Oppression
Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the power of doctrines — how support for a false dogma can become politically mandatory, and how… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it. — Antonia White Copy Share Image
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which… — Felix Adler Copy Share
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't true] Was… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A… — Felix Adler Copy Share
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction. — Alex Smith Copy Share Image
I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
“Desert are you, deluge are you, in a crowd of fakes, only truth is you.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice,… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share
Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions. — Julia Child Copy Share Image