Dogma Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image “From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dogma God Justification Justify Men Religion Used Zealotry
Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard. — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Romans explains how God can justify the ungodly. "Justification" is a declaration by God that we are righteous only in Christ. We need justification… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The purpose of man's creation is that he do good in the world, not substitute himself for God and think that he can make… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“For what he had planned, that did he also put in practice: he tyrannized over and slew him; God subjecting the just to the… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word comes from… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. — George Sanders Copy Share Image
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able… — Wilhelm Korner Copy Share Image
