Creeds Quote by Sydney J. Harris

Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For…

— George Orwell

America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God

— Andrew White

I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political…

— Millard Fillmore

“It goes without saying that one generally should not try to dissolve disparate creeds into one another, much less into some vague, syncretistic, doctrinally…

— David Bentley Hart

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

— Andrew Dickson White

The purpose of creed is to experience the Light of God, not the darkness of debate!

— Aaron Sellers

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

— Edward Abbey

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

— Joseph Henry

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Timothy Keller