Atheism Quote by George Eliot

“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

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

— E. O. Wilson

“Religious dogma not only results in the form of gross, zealous behavior such as the killing of ethnic minorities as part of a cultural…

— Martin Dansky

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

— Flannery O'Connor

Power is the goal of religion in general.

— Norman Lear

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

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the…

— Bertrand Russell

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Religion is always in danger of growing apart from the people when its leaders forget to reflect carefully on their own behavior and come…

— Senora Roy