Action Quote by John Dewey

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

— John Dewey

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

My doctrine is as I've described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.

— Mitt Romney

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe…

— Gautama Buddha

The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of…

— Jean Francois Revel

It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Timothy Keller

“We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundamental terms, it is the annihilation, first, of those…

— Robert A. Nisbet

Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.

— Huangbo Xiyun

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding…

— Charles Evans Hughes

“The downfall of liberty which in every case followed the success of these attacks demonstrates in hard facts what we said before: that freedom…

— Michael Polanyi