Burning Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that 'all religions…

— N.T. Wright

“I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of religion as…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

“[I]n the history of dogma [w]orld-old usages, laws and institutions continue to drag out their existence long after they have lost their true meaning.…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the…

— John Henry Newman

“Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and then only…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Do not criticise others, for all doctrines and all dogmas are good; but show them by your lives that religion is no matter of…

— Swami Vivekananda

“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 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

Manipulation of human mind starts with dogmas.

— Peter Marley

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest…

— Frances Wright

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots…

— Dorothy L. Sayers