Action Quote by John Dewey

Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.

— John Dewey

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

— Simone Weil

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

“Nevertheless, the doctrine that one can impose one’s visions and desires on the world by the force of thought alone retains a powerful appeal…

— Richard P. Rumelt

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

— Mitt Romney

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

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

— Huangbo Xiyun

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

— Pat Robertson

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

— Timothy Keller

A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is…

— George F. Kennan

Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the…

— J. C. Ryle

“The promise of signalling fosters a neglect of doctrine.”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon